MOTIHARI: Excise officials on Thursday, seized 350 cartons of liquor worth Rs 50 lakh with truck and arrested one person in Belwa under the area of Kotwa Police Station.
Acting on a tip-off, an excise team intercepted a truck at Belwa chowk and seized liquor cartoon from it and arrested driver, according to the news report.
According to the information, the arrested driver Rajendra Singh is a resident of Punjab and he was bringing a truck full of liquor cartoon from Chandigarh on the New Year celebration for supply.
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Preparation for the New Year 2023, there was a plan to supply up to Muzaffarpur including Kotwa.
According to the excise department, there was a plan to sell huge quantities of liquor in some districts of Bihar on the occasion of New Year. The cartoon was hidden in a sack of jaggery in the truck, said police.