<h1>Senior ruling-party leader and brother arrested under Excise and Prohibition Acts over alleged spurious liquor manufacture, transport, sale</h1> A senior ruling-party leader and his brother were arrested by excise officials and remanded on allegations of illegal manufacture, transport, import and sale of spurious liquor under the state Excise and Prohibition Acts and other statutes following seizures across multiple locations. They were produced before a local court. The party supremo denounced the arrest as illegal and politically vindictive, alleging involvement of ruling-party affiliates in the seized operations, asserting the investigative team is controlled by the state government and claiming the arrest was orchestrated to distract from recent public tragedies.