DW BUREAU / PATIALA In yet another major blow to illicit liquor manufacturing and supply, the Punjab Police on Tuesday busted another illegal liquor manufacturing unit in the State with the arrest of three persons from Shagun Vihar area in Patiala.Those arrested have been identified as Salwinder Singh alias Shinda, a resident of village Bufanpura of Patiala, Hardeep Kumar alias Deepu of Urban Estate Patiala and Sunil Kumar of Safabadi Gate, Patiala. This is the second such illegal Liqu or manufacturing unit busted by the Punjab Police in less than a week. Notably, the Jalandhar Rural Police, in a joint operation with the State Excise department on June 16, 2021, had unearthed an illegal liquor factory in village Dhogri in Adampur and arrested four persons after unearthing a bottling unit. DGP Punjab Dinkar Gupta, while divulging details about the intelligence led special operation in Patiala, said that the Police teams under the supervision of SSP Sandeep Garg unearthed the illegal liquor manufacturing unit in the area of Shagun Vihar in Patiala yesterday. DIG Patiala Vikram Jeet Duggal said that Shinda and Deepu had been into the illegal liquor business from last 5 to 6 years and with the help of Vishal, who was privy to the place in Delhi from where machinery and raw material could be procured, had set-up a illegal liquor manufacturing unit. He said that initially the gang had set-up the unit at Ekta Vihar in Patiala in May 2020, but they shifted their unit to the residence of Atinder Pal in Ghanaur after their neighbours got suspicious of their activities. "They also shifted their second unit from Ghanaur to its current location Shagun Vihar and had been running this unit for sometime," said DIG Patiala Vikram Jeet Duggal. (editor@dailyworld.in)