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Time of India
22-05-2025
- Time of India
Liquor scam: 2 JSBCL officers sent to jail, Choubey admitted in Rims
1 2 Ranchi: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday produced two top officials of the Jharkhand State Beverage Corporation (JSBCL) and an employee of a firm, providing manpower to run liquor shops, before the special ACB court in connection with the alleged multi-crore Jharkhand liquor scam. An IAS officer and an excise department officer were already arrested in connection with the scam, amounting to Rs 38.44 crore. Both the JSBCL officials general manager (finance) Sudhir Kumar Das and general manager (operations-cum-finance) Sudhir Kumar, along with the local representative of M/s Marshan Innovative Security Service Ltd, identified as Neeraj Kumar, were forwarded to jail under judicial custody till June 3 by the special court. The trio were arrested earlier on Wednesday. Amlan Palit, an advocate appearing on behalf of accused Neeraj, said, "Acting on the plea submitted by me about the ill health of my client, the court ordered that medical facilities should be provided to him." Earlier on Tuesday, Vinay Choubey (IAS) and joint commissioner of the excise department, Gajendra Singh, were arrested in connection with the scam. On Thursday, the jail administration shifted Choubey to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) in accordance with court orders, which asked for proper medical care, including treatment by Rims doctors, of the arrested officer, who is unwell. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Scalable retail: Video analytics firm enables more traffic thanks to robust computing power - Google Cloud: Future of Infrastructure CIO | Google Cloud, AMD Undo In its FIR, the ACB said two companies, namely Vision Hospitality and Marshan Securities, were empanelled as placement agencies for running liquor shops in the state by providing fake bank guarantees. The FIR also alleged that Choubey was the key accused in the alleged scam. According to the ACB, the tender conditions stipulate that the minimum guaranteed revenue would be assessed monthly and any shortfall in collection would be compensated through the bank guarantee, but not a single penny was recovered through the bank guarantees. The bureau's FIR also mentioned that the state govt issued a demand note to the companies when the revenue collection fell short by Rs 200 crore, adding that it failed to get the money through the bank guarantees. The ACB added that the two officials did not try to get the bank guarantees verified either through the structured financial management system or the physical mode.
Time of India
15-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Cabinet gives nod to retail liquor sale by private players in state
1 2 Ranchi: The cabinet of chief minister Hemant Soren on Thursday approved a proposal of the state excise and prohibitions department which will pave the way for the retail sale of liquor in Jharkhand by private players. The ministerial council approved a new policy titled Jharkhand Excise (Settlement and Operation of Shops for Retail Sale of Liquor) Rules, 2025 to this effect. Wholesale liquor sales will be controlled by the state-run Jharkhand State Beverages Corporation Limited ( JSBCL ). Thursday's move is a shift from the arrangement which was in effect since 2019 whereby the JSBCL controlled retail liquor sales statewide. However, the arrangement was scrapped as it failed to meet revenue expectations. Talking to the media after the cabinet meeting, excise secretary Manoj Kumar said, "There were some implementation issues due to manpower crunch due to which the retail liquor shops will be privatised now. If all goes well, we hope to implement the new change within a month." On the issue of pricing, he added, "Of about 500 brands of India Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL), there will be a marginal hike in prices in some about 300 odd brands. " Kumar said 1,443 shops statewide have been identified for privatisation in the initial phase. "One can take a maximum of 12 shops in one district and 36 across the state," he said. Reacting to new excise policy, BJP spokesperson Ajay Sahu said that it is aimed at another liquor scam in Jharkhand.
