Chandigarh/Rohtak, Oct. 31 -- Parveen Bansal, the purported Rohtak liquor contractor whose complaint led to registration of a criminal case against EASI Sushil Kumar on Oct 6 does not hold a retail or wholesale liquor licence in his name in Rohtak district.

Information accessed by Hindustan Times showed that Bansal's name does not figure in the list of 58 retail liquor zones comprising 116 vends in Rohtak allotted by way of auction for 2025-27. Records show that he was a director in Discovery Beverages Pvt Ltd until 2021 but currently holds no liquor licence individually.

"Parveen Bansal is probably a small-time partner in a liquor conglomerate. He himself admitted in a video that he is a small-time trader," said a Rohtak based official...