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Bengal liquor scam: Excise Dept altered policy to siphon off thousands of crores to Abhishek Banerjee, says confidential report

Manas Banerjee, Siddhartha Rai and Nitish Kapoor
Kolkata/New Delhi, June 8 (UNI) After Delhi, West Bengal has thrown up its own iteration of a liquor scam. The state's liquor policy was altered in 2021, allegedly at the behest of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) National General Secretary and then Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee, enabling the state to monopolise liquor distribution.
The new policy was designed to twist the arms of erstwhile private wholesalers into paying levies to line Abhishek's pockets to the tune of thousands of crores of rupees.

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