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CHANDIGARH: The city-based bottling plants have been selling liquor bottles without hologram seals. One carton of country-made liquor is being sold in UT for Rs 750 to Rs 1,500. He said, “The maximum demand is of country-made liquor with prominent brand names suffixed with whisky . The UT excise department has so far failed to check this, which is facilitating cross-border liquor smuggling due to high rate difference between Chandigarh and Mohali The low prices of liquor in Chandigarh as compared to Punjab are luring smugglers, said a city-based liquor seller on request of anonymity. This is facilitating cross-border smuggling and causing huge losses to the state exchequer.”The rates of liquor in Chandigarh are 40% less than that in Punjab, said a Chandigarh-based liquor bottling plant official..