Police on Sunday night seized 850 boxes of illicit branded whisky (Representative image).
PILIBHIT: A joint team of the excise department and local police on Sunday night seized 850 boxes of illicit branded whisky worth Rs 38 lakh from a truck and a car near Dhirpur Crossing in Farrukhabad.
The seizure was a part of a drive against illicit liquor launched following the order of additional chief secretary (excise) Sanjay R Bhoosreddy in view of the forthcoming panchayat elections.
The carriers failed to produce valid documents or the transit permits of the liquor stock being transported from Himachal Pradesh, said excise inspector Sanjay Gupta.
Pilibhit: An enforcement team of the excise department in association with the civil police recovered as many as 1158 boxes of Haryana-made whisky worth Rs 62 lakh from a truck in Badaun district on Friday. An FIR has been lodged and three persons have been arrested.
An anti-liquor drive has been ordered by the additional chief secretary of excise, Sanjay R. Bhoosreddy, in view of the forthcoming panchayat elections and the festival of Holi.
Excise inspector Neeraj Singh said that the recovery was made at Myaun T junction under Alapur police station following a tip-off. The truck was on its way from Haryana to Arunachal Pradesh. The truck driver could not produce the transit permit, the valid documents of the whisky stock and the registration papers of the truck, he added.
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