As press conferences go, this was quite an unusual one. For, it was organised by two accused wanted in a bootlegging case in Amraivadi police station.
As press conferences go, this was quite an unusual one. For, it was organised by two accused wanted in a bootlegging case in Amraivadi police station.
One of them is a member of the Ghetia gang while the other is allegedly a former bootlegger. Perumal alias Shiva Shubhya, an accused booked in several bootlegging cases and who has served time in jail under Prevention of Anti Social Activities (Pasa) Act told the media that he has been falsely booked for smuggling Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL). The IMFL was seized by Amraivadi police on December 2, 2010.
Addressing the press conference, Shubhya told reporters that he is being unnecessarily harassed by the cops who are demanding Rs1 lakh to let him go free in a false case filed against him. Shubhya told reporters that he had left the bootlegging business eight months ago and at present runs an auto garage.
He accused the Amraivadi police station officials of harassing him.
"Since my marriage in February 2010, I decided to quit all illegal activities," he told reporters. Shubhya was last booked for IMFL smuggling when 134 bottles of IMFL were seized from near the house of one Vimal Kawandar(32), another bootlegger and a former member of the Ghetia gang.
Kawandar said "I told the police that the 134 bottles seized by them belonged to me and Shubhya had no role to play in it." Kawandar further said that two police constables from Amraivadi police station Chatrasinh Chimanlal and Bhavin had given him Rs50,000 on a monthly interest of 10%.
The police constables, according to an affidavit of Kawandar, later demanded Rs1 lakh from him as bribe.
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