Crackdown on illicit liquor trade: 18 arrested in Nagapattinam and searches conducted in lodges

As portion of a district-wide crackdown connected illicit liquor trade, the Nagapattinam constabulary connected precocious Saturday arrested 18 persons and remanded them successful judicial custody.

Acting connected the directions of the Superintendent of Police K. S. Balakrishnan, 4 peculiar teams conducted coordinated searches successful Kilvelur and Velippalayam constabulary limits connected January 31, 2026. The cognition targeted the merchantability and proscription of illicit liquor, starring to aggregate arrests successful a azygous day.

Simultaneously, the constabulary carried retired a large-scale combing cognition astatine each lodges and impermanent houses falling nether the Velankanni constabulary presumption limits. Ten peculiar teams comprising 2 Deputy Superintendents of Police, 5 Inspectors and 50 constabulary unit were deployed for the operation.

Warning of strict action, the Superintendent of Police said those progressive successful the merchantability oregon smuggling of illicit liquor would beryllium booked nether the Goondas Act. He added specified enforcement measures would proceed crossed the district.