Excise raid yields 7,805 litres of illegally stored spirit

Mangalore | Wednesday | 21st February, 2018

Summary:

| Photo Credit: Special Arrangementmore-inExcise Department personnel on Tuesday seized 7,805 litres of alcoholic spirit, two vehicles and arrested one person for illegally storing the spirit during a raid in the city. Excise personnel with the seized alcoholic spirit and the accused in Mangaluru on Tuesday. The department claimed that the accused had stored alcoholic spirit to transport it to Kerala. Excise Superintendent Vinod, Deputy Superintendents S.S.

Amarnath Bhandary and Shivaprasad and other officials participated in the raid, the release added. During the raid, the personnel found 3,955 litres of spirit stored in 113 plastic cans of 35 litre capacity each inside the residence and another 110 cans of 35 litre capacity each containing 3,850 litres of spirit loaded on a truck..