Published 23:26 IST, April 15th 2020

Delhi Police seizes enormous amount of liquor, arrests 8 amid COVID19 lockdown

The Delhi Police have arrested eight bootleggers amidst lockdown and seized 5523 qtrs of illicit liquor from them.

Reported by: Madhurima Mishra
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Delhi Police have arrested eight bootleggers amidst lockdown and seized 5523 litres of illicit liquor from m. In a bid to enforce lockdown rms, Delhi police PCR vans have been stringently patrolling across national capital.

"Numbers of bootleggers arrested are eight and 5523 litres of illicit liquor has been arrested from m," informed DCP PCR, Sharat Sinha. "This has been done with alert policing done by our PCR teams during past 21 days of lockdown," he ded. This development came after Central government on Wednesday banned complete sale of liquor till May 3. 

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23:26 IST, April 15th 2020