Overview
- Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi told the Assembly that 10.49 lakh IMFL bottles worth Rs 38.89 crore and 1.59 lakh beer bottles worth Rs 3.33 crore were confiscated at checkposts on the Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh borders.
- Police have arrested 1,018 people linked to these cases, with 141 accused reported as absconding.
- Special teams have been set up at police-station level to track down remaining suspects involved in cross-border smuggling networks.
- Authorities registered 32,465 cases for consuming liquor without a permit in Ahmedabad (17,311) and Vadodara (15,154) over the past two years.
- Government figures show health liquor permit fee collections rose from Rs 7.88 crore to Rs 8.63 crore year over year, while 32 licensed hotels in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar generated Rs 116.39 crore for the state across two years.