VISAKHAPATNAM: A person set afire a wine shop when the staff of the state government-run outlet refused to sell the liquor after closing hours in Visakhapatnam on Monday.
Dissatisfied with the reply from the staff, he poured petrol and torched the wine shop. Interestingly, the accused person Gummadi Madhusudhana Rao built the goddess Durgalamma temple and has a good name in his locality.
The incident took place at the Madhurawada-Kommadi area on Sunday when the accused person Gummadi Madhusudana Rao poured petrol and set afire to a wine shop on Sunday evening. The staff in the liquor outlet ran for their lives.
"We came to know that he came to purchase liquor at 9.30 pm on Saturday. By that time, the staff closed sales and counting the money. They informed him that sales were closed as the shop was open till 9 pm only. The angry man threatened the staff that he would burn the wine shop in 24 hours and attempted the same,” the PM Palem Circle Inspector K Ramakrishna told TOI.
Initially, a different kind of version had taken rounds in the air that a man set afire to a wine shop when the staff expressed their inability to supply the certain brand of liquor sought by the accused. Cops thrashed out the version and said that he torched the wine shop when staff did not supply the liquor after the closure of the shop. locals caught hold of him and handed him over to the police. Cops arrested the accused and registered a case.
