Spokesperson of the department said on 18th January, 2022 Galo bottling plant Jogindernagar in district Mandi was inspected by the officials of the Excise Department and detected some irregularities in the plant.
After hearing the director of this bottling plant, Commissioner State Taxes and Excise, HP had suspended the license of the plant and further action will be taken in this matter as per rules by the department. In this case, the departmental officer has also been suspended considering him prima facie guilty and further disciplinary action was being taken against him, stated the department.
He said that apart from this, 9 cases of irregularities have also been caught during the checking of liquor bottling plants located in the state by the officers of the department in the last few days and a fine of Rs. 32.27 lakh has been recovered and license has been suspended.
In all these cases, the departmental employees have been suspended considering prima facie guilty and further disciplinary action was being taken against all of them.
The spokesman said that during the inspection of retail and wholesale shops in the last few months, a total of 151 cases of irregularities have been caught in by the departmental officers, in which two cases of wholesalers of liqour in district Kangra and one each in district Una and Bilaspur, in which a fine of Rs. 8.62 crore has been imposed by the department and three licenses have been cancelled and an FIR has also been lodged against a wholesaler.
