Date:22/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/22/stories/2008082253500400.htm

Kerala - Thiruvananthapuram

Excise drive against illicit liquor

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Excise Department is taking stringent measures to check the production, stocking, distribution and sale of spurious liquor during the Onam season. The Excise Commissioner said here today that taluk and district level control rooms were being opened as part of it. The public could even phone in their complaints. The telephone numbers are 0471-2327135 (Excise Minister’s office), 2332632, 9447178000 (Excise Commissioner) and 2322136 and 9447179000 (Additional Excise Commissioner). — Special Correspondent