KATHMANDU, Jan 5: Nepal Police in coordination with various local committees has stepped up action against bootlegged alcohol across the country in an effort to bring its Community-Police Partnership Program (CPPP) into action. According to officials at the Nepal Police headquarters, police have given high priority to this initiative.
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As a result, the production of such alcohol has declined, claimed police sources. Police have destroyed a total of 37 tons of alcohol produced illicitly across Nepal in the first four months of the ongoing fiscal year. Similarly, the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu on Thursday confiscated and destroyed about 3.5 tons of bootlegged alcohol from various illegal production centers in the valley. Police had seized and destroyed 91 tons of bootlegged alcohol and 154 tons of the raw materials needed for the production in the Fiscal Year 2017/18 and 51 tons of such alcohol in the Fiscal Year 2016/17. Claiming that the increase in confiscation and destruction of bootlegged alcohol is a positive sign, spokesperson of Nepal Police, SSP Uttam Raj Subedi praised the involvement of the community in the rise in number of raids on illegal production houses and destruction of the alcohol.
“The increase in the number of raids should be taken as a positive sign,” he said, “This sends a positive and long-lasting message to the people who have been producing such bootlegged alcohol.”
