Chandigarh, June 12 -- A case has been registered in connection with last year's theft of extra neutral alcohol (ENA) and some items from a sealed bottling plant in Phase 1 industrial area, Chandigarh, police said.

The UT excise and taxation department had sealed the bottling plant of Sancheti Packaging Private Limited, leased to Nayyar Alcobrew Pvt Ltd, after the licence of the former was cancelled on February 4, 2023. An employee of the Punjab Ex Servicemen Corporation posted there reported a theft of 60 bottles (180 ml each) of alcohol, including 39 of 555 Gold Whiskey and 21 of Joshila Santra country liquor, on April 2, 2024, following which an FIR was registered.

Later, a team of excise officials found that locks and seals of all d...