The district excise department has arrested five liquor smugglers as part of the crackdown on illegal liquor supply in the city during New Year celebrations.
Kuldeep Yadav, District Excise Officer said that a team of Noida Police and the excise department arrested five liquor smugglers in the last 24 hours and seized smuggled liquor from them.
"District Excise Department team today arrested two liquor smugglers and seized 600 quarters of smuggled liquor from them," Yadav said.
Yadav noted that Radhey alias Hemraj was nabbed by Noida Phase 3 police from Sector 63today and recovered4 cartons of smuggled foreign liquor from him. Another accused Laxman was arrested by Ecotech 3 police station and 22 quarter bottles were recovered from him.
One Rinku was arrested last night from a slum in Sector 67, he said, adding that 13 cartons and 24 quarter liquor bottles were seized from him.
Surajpur police arrested one Gajinder from Jaitpur crossing yesterday and seized 48 quarter bottles of smuggled liquor.
A narcotics smuggler Roshan was arrested from near Spice Mall today and police recovered 1.5 kg ganja (cannabis) from him, Yadav added.
Cumulatively, 4,660.15 litre of country spirit, smuggled
into Bihar, was seized during the period from various places.
The biggest amount of 2,451.05 litre smuggled country liquor came from Jharkhand, followed by 1,813.73 litre from Nepal, they said.
From Uttar Pradesh, 166.93 litre of illegal country spirit was brought into Bihar from April to August. The biggest seizure of 119.55 litre of country spirit from Uttar Pradesh was made at Gopalganj where 18 persons had died recently because of suspected consumption of hooch, they said.
The officials said a meeting of senior officials of the Excise departments of Bihar and Jharkhand has been called at Koderma in the neighbouring state on September 6 to check smuggling of liquor into Bihar.
