Balangir: Local police today busted a spurious liquor manufacturing unit operating from a rented house in the busy Uday Nagar area near the railway station.
Seven persons including the kingpin Pawan Kumar have been detained by the police, reports said.
During the raid police have seized Rs 6.73 lakh cash, several bottles of fake India Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL), spirit, colour, chemicals, labelling machines, labels of top IMFL brands, a currency note counting machine, sales registers, bikes and mobile phones, reports added.
Reports further said that the unit was operating in the house for the last five years and was supplying spurious liquor to liquor off shops, dhabas and bootleggers in Balangir town and its periphery.
Police have sealed the house, reports added.