Excise dept seizes 1,502 boxes of prohibited liquor in Thane district

The Maharashtra governments excise department has arrested two men from Punjab for illegally transporting more than 1,500 boxes of Indian-Made Foreign Liquor IMFL, an official said here.Acting on a tip-off, a flying squad of the department intercepted a truck on Wednesday near a roadside eatery at Kasara on Nashik-Mumbai road, said superintendent of state excise Nilesh Sangde.

The Maharashtra government's excise department has arrested two men from Punjab for illegally transporting more than 1,500 boxes of Indian-Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL), an official said here.

Acting on a tip-off, a flying squad of the department intercepted a truck on Wednesday near a roadside eatery at Kasara on Nashik-Mumbai road, said superintendent of state excise Nilesh Sangde. Inside, the team found 1,502 bottles of IMFL, being smuggled into Maharashtra though the liquor was produced in Punjab and Arunachal Pradesh and was allowed to be sold only in those two states. The value of the seized liquor and truck together was Rs 1.31 crore, the official said.

Jaspal Tarsemlal Singh (50) and Gurdayal Gurdasram Singh (44), both from Punjab, were arrested and further probe was on.