KATHMANDU: In a bid to curb the production and consumption of domestically brewed alcohol in Kathmandu Valley, the Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Office (KMPO), Ranipokhari has seized and destroyed altogether 137,620 liters of hooch in the last six months of the current fiscal year.
The liquor was in ready position to be delivered to the market in various places in the valley, said Spokesperson at the KMPO and Superintendent of Police Puja Singh. Of the confiscated liquor, 126,000 liters was from Kathmandu, 7,360 liters from Lalitpur and 4,260 liters from Bhaktapur.
SP Singh asserted that police have launched a crackdown on the production and consumption of homemade alcohol in view of the growing cases of violence such as rape, dispute and death among others under the influence of such liquor.
She said, “Police have been keeping an eye on the people and places where such liquors are brewed and sold. Production and sales of such domestically brewed liquor have been banned.”
Furthermore, police have also destroyed 121,000 kilograms of raw materials used to produce hooch totaling. Some 118,000 kilograms of raw material was confiscated from Kathmandu while the rest was from Lalitpur.
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