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Rajampet MP and Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) person P.V. Midhun Reddy has urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to bid a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the increasing menace of spurious liquor successful Andhra Pradesh, describing it arsenic a “large-scale, organised inter-State crime” that requires contiguous Central intervention.
In a missive to the Home Minister connected Thursday (October 9, 2025), Mr. Reddy expressed sedate interest that spurious liquor laced with toxic chemicals specified arsenic methanol is claiming lives crossed Andhra Pradesh and neighbouring States.
“The poorest sections of nine are the worst affected, arsenic they are deceived by counterfeit bottles branded arsenic reputed labels,” Mr. Reddy said. Highlighting the magnitude of the problem, the MP said caller enforcement operations had unearthed amerciable distillation units, including 1 successful Mulakalacheruvu, Annamayya district, wrong his constituency.
Authorities seized immense quantities of fake liquor bottles, caps, and packaging materials, pointing to a good coordinated transgression web operating crossed aggregate districts and State borders.
Mr. Reddy urged the Union Home Ministry to bid a broad probe by the CBI, successful coordination with agencies specified arsenic the Narcotics Control Bureau, State Police, Excise Department, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), and the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
Mr. Reddy besides called for stricter regularisation of concern alcohol, effectual mechanisms to forestall its diversion for amerciable use, and enhanced intelligence-sharing among States to dismantle the spurious liquor mafia that poses a increasing nationalist wellness and instrumentality enforcement challenge.
