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138 litres of liquor seized from train in Mangaluru.
Officials of the Excise department and the railway police on Friday confiscated 138.75 litres of liquor being illegally transported in a train in Mangaluru on Friday, sources said.
The liquor bottles were seized from the Dadar-Tirunelveli express train at the Mangaluru railway station, the Excise Department sources said.
The accused, suspected to be the carrier, was missing when the seizure was made during a joint operation by the Excise and the police departments, they said.
A case under the Excise Act has been registered, they said.