Muzaffarnagar: A joint team of Muzaffarnagar district excise department and local police seized 535 cartons of illicit liquor, estimated to be worth Rs 40 lakh, from Budhana area of the district on Sunday morning, police said.
Officials said the liquor, being transported from Punjab, was intended for distribution in Bihar during the elections. The excise team has intensified checking on the inter-state borders in the wake of upcoming Lok Sabha elections, they said.
Superintendent of police (SP) (rural) Muzaffarnagar, Aditya Bansal, said, “We received information of liquor smuggling in the area.
