PUDUCHERRY: Villupuram police seized 1,200 packets of arrack and a packaging machine from a licensed arrack outlet in Aandiyarpalayam near Thirubhuvanai in Puducherry on Saturday. Sources said the police, during a vehicle inspection at the Prohibition Enforcement Wing checkpost in Gengarampalayam, seized arrack packets from two men -- Arun Kumar of Asokapuri and Sivakumar of Ragavanpettai -- on Friday. A …
Cadre of the AIADMK staged a demonstration near the Thanjavur Head Post Office condemning the DMK government for its failure to curb the illicit arrack menace. A similar demonstration was organised by the Tiruvarur AIADMK unit near the Tiruvarur Railway Junction on Friday where the participants raised slogans seeking CBI probe into the Kallakuruchi hooch tragedy. NFIW demonstration Members of …