Maharashtra Govt Orders Probe As Empty Liquor Bottles Found In Secretariat

Asserting a detailed investigation will be conducted, Minister of State for General Administration Dattatray Bharane said the guilty will face stringent action.

CM Uddhav Thackeray

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has ordered a probe as several empty liquor bottles were in a bizarre incident found dumped in a duct in the state secretariat complex in south Mumbai on Tuesday.

The bottles were found lying under the staircase leading to the canteen on the ground floor of the secretariat, where offices of the chief minister, ministers, the chief secretary and other bureaucrats are located.

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Asserting a detailed investigation will be conducted, Minister of State for General Administration Dattatray Bharane said the guilty will face stringent action.

“It is my personal opinion that the bottles could have been brought inside the Mantralaya by employees of some private contractors carrying out various works in the premises,” PTI quoted Bharane as saying while speaking to a regional news channel on the incident.

Suspecting the role of private contractors and labourers, who visit the secretariat for some construction works in bringing in the liquor bottles, Bharane added that he would inform Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil about the dumping of liquor bottles on the premises of the state administrative headquarters.

The probe order come as this incident has raised questions about the apparent loopholes in the security system at the state secretariat.