In a bid to curb the production and consumption of domestically brewed alcohol in Kathmandu Valley, the Metropolitan Police Office, Ranipokhari, Kathmandu has seized and destroyed altogether 137,620 liters of hooch in the last six months of the current fiscal year.
The liquor was in ready position to be sent to the market in various places in the Valley, said Spokesperson at the MPO and Superintendent of Police Puja Singh.
Of the confiscated liquor, 126,000 liters was from Kathmandu, 7,360 liters from Lalitpur and 4,260 liters from Bhaktapur.
SP Singh asserted that police have launched a crackdown on the production and consumption of homemade alcohol considering the growing cases of violence such as rape, dispute and death, among others under the influence of such liquor.
She said, "Police have been keeping an eye on the people and places where such liquors are brewed and sold. Production and sales of such domestically brewed liquor have been banned."
Furthermore, police have also destroyed the raw materials used to produce hooch totaling in 121,000 kg. Some 118,000 kg of raw material was confiscated from Kathmandu while rest others from Lalitpur.
