Imphal : City police raided dens in Imphal city and claimed to have seized high-quality Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) and Distilled Indigenous Country (DIC) liquors in the dry Manipur state in the board daylight on Monday.

The police said that based on a piece of specific information, a team from City Police Station, Imphal West district conducted a random drive at a den – Pologround Maning and adjacent areas at around 10 am on Monday.

In the drive against liquors, the police seized 25 liters of different brands/bottles of the IMFL and 120 liters of DIC liquors.Manipur has been declared a dry state after the valley-based extremist groups, primarily the People’s Liberation Army, hijacked a mass movement against liquor and imposed a total ban.

This led to the Manipur People’s Party government headed by R.K. Ranbir Singh enforcing prohibition in the State on April 1, 1991.However, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes were exempted from the total prohibition as they brew liquor for traditional purposes.