Excise dept recovers illicit liquor worth nearly Rs 5 lakh in Delhi's Ashok Nagar

The Delhi government's Excise department on Wednesday recovered illicit liquor worth around Rs 5 lakh from the possession of a person in Ashok Nagar area, officials said.

The enforcement team of the department conducted a raid at ground floor of a building in Ashok Nagar and recovered 220 bottles of mostly foreign liquor, an excise department officer said.

The process of arrest and registration of a FIR is underway, the officer said.

The illicit liquor was meant to be sold in Haryana only and was illegally brought to Delhi for sale, he said.