Ahmedabad: Patidar quota agitation leader Hardik Patel and Gujarat MLAs Alpesh Thakor and Jignesh Mevani have been booked by police on trespass and other charges after they allegedly lead a "raid" at a house where they claimed liquor had been illegally stored.

Thakor, a Congress MLA, along with Patel and Independent legislator Mevani, had on Thursday allegedly raided the house of a woman, identified as Kanchanben Makwana, with over a dozen supporters claiming they wanted to expose the "liquor den" operating there.

Gujarat has a law in force since 1960 that bans manufacture, storage, sale and consumption of alcohol.

The house is located near the office of the Gandhinagar superintendent of police.

Kanchanben said in her police complaint that the trio and their supporters entered her house when no male member was present. "They even planted two pouches of country-made liquor to prove her house was a liquor den," inspector V.N. Yadav said, referring to the complaint.

"Kanchanben has said in her complaint that she does not sell liquor and the two pouches found at her house had been planted by the people who entered it," Yadav said.

He said an FIR was lodged against Thakor, Mevani and Patel, besides over a dozen others, under various section of the IPC including for house trespass, assault or wrongful restraint, intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace and intentionally giving false evidence.

Yadav said no arrest had been made so far.

Patel tweeted that the "liquor mafia" can do anything in Mahatma Gandhi's Gujarat, with the police and the ruling BJP giving them support.

Thakor said the aim of the "raid" was to expose the police and the government's "inaction" on the alcohol menace in the state.