Satish Aditya
Motihari /Muzaffarpur : Prohibition & Excise Department sleuths, on a tip off during their on going operation against illegal liquor trade, seized 8,400 bottles of IMFL worth Rs 34 lakh from the chamber of an oil tanker stranded near a line hotel on NH28 neat Kotawa in East Champaran District on September 16, 2019. The driver of the oil tanker, however, escaped from the spot.
Excise Superintendent, East Champaran, Awinash Prakash, told this scribe that the tanker was seized and its registration number was being verified after lodging a case in this connection. He suspects the consignment was brought over from UP to Muzaffarpur.
In Muzaffarpur, the Excise Department sleuths intercepted a truck near Chandani Ch0wk on NH28 on September 16 and seized 300 cartons of IMFL worth Rs 1 crore This consignment was coming from Haryana and was to be delivered in Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga areas by liquor mafias. Two persons including the driver and co- driver of the truck were arrested and the truck was seized, said Excise Superintendent, Muzaffarpur, Deen Bandhu.