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MADURAI: Police personnel from the Melur unit of the prohibition enforcement wing (PEW) have seized 9,932 bottles of liquor from a bar functioning without a licence at Valaiyankulam on the Aruppukottai Road in Madurai district. Inspector Ravichandran said the licence obtained by the bar expired last year but it had continued to sell liquor.
In the raid that started late on Tuesday evening and went on till Wednesday, the police seized 39 different types of liquor worth Rs 17 lakh. The seizure included 8,430 bottles with 180 ml each, 1,031 beer bottles with 650 ml each, 410 bottles with 375 ml each and 71 bottles with 750 ml each. They seized a total of 2,387 litre of liquor.