Hooch horror: Senior Malwani cops looked the other way for Rs 600 a month?

Updated On: 23 June, 2015 07:26 AM IST | | Shiva Devnath

Bootleggers have told the Crime Branch that a Malwani policeman would allegedly come by every month and collect Rs 600 in the name of senior officers; the police would then ignore the issue while the sellers ruined people’s lives

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Hooch horror: Senior Malwani cops looked the other way for Rs 600 a month?

The Mumbai Crime Branch and local police have formed teams to crack down on the methanol mafia in Gujarat and other states even as more evidence is emerging of cops being hand-in-glove with the bootleggers, who reportedly also had political patronage.

A file photo of Francis D’Mello, one of the major sellers of spurious liquor, with a bottle of scotch whisky, which costs upwards of Rs 5,800