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Nine held for consuming spurious liquor in Nagaon

By A Correspondent

NAGAON, Feb 23 - In a special drive against selling and consuming of spurious liquor after the hooch tragedy in Golaghat, the Nagaon Excise department today busted some pockets of spurious liquor and also apprehended nine persons from various spots like Dimaruguri, Morikolong, Fauzdaripatty, Charikhuti Kathmil Chariali area in Nagaon town when they were consuming liquor.

According to sources, the nabbed persons have been identified as Jiten Hazarika of Christanpatty, Dulal Ali of Chinapatty, Anuwar Hussain of Lanka, Pinku Saikia and Abdul Hashim of Chutarupahi, Sabir Pasi, Radhesyam Singh and Sivam Sutradhar of Morikolong and Saqib Ansari of Charikhuti. They were picked up by the sleuths from the selling pockets of spurious liquor run allegedly by Dulu Das and Gopal Das of Fauzdaripatty, Geetanjali Devi, Geeta Devi and Rekha Devi of Morikolong, Kunti Devi and Mohanti of Charikhuti and Gouri Basfor of Ramakrishna road of Nagaon town respectively. The sleuths interestingly could not trace anyone of those who were allegedly running those pockets of spurious liquor in the town over the years.

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