Tag: Excise Officials

Bhubaneswar: Continuing its crackdown on drug trade, Excise officials today arrested two auto rickshaw drivers for selling brown sugar in Bhubaneswar. The sleuths nabbed the auto drivers from Baramunda bus stand and Indradhanu market and also seized brown sugar worth Rs 3 lakh from their possession. One of the accused said that a person used […]

Puri: A special team of Puri district excise officials conducted raids at Bhoi Sahi in Gendapada village under Brahmagiri block of the district and seized country-made liquor and molasses yesterday night. Seven persons were also arrested in this connection. As per police reports, 135 litres of country-made liquor, 1500 litres of molasses and four motorcycles […]

Bhubaneswar: Excise officials today busted a duplicate liquor manufacturing unit which was operating inside an ashram near Khandagiri in Bhubaneswar. Acting on a tip off, the Excise officials conducted a surprise raid on the ashram near Khandagiri. The officials seized duplicate liquor, spirit, bottle caps and other materials from the ashram and arrested three persons […]

Bhubaneswar/Jajpur: Excise officials seized brown sugar worth around Rs 14 lakhs and arrested three drug dealers after raids in two separate places in the state today. According to reports, a flying squad of the Excise department raided Haladipadia slum under Laxmisagar police limits of Bhubaneswar today and seized 45 gram of brown sugar worth approximately […]

Sonepur: The Excise department officials on Thursday managed to nab a ganja smuggler in Binika area after the car in which he was travelling skidded-off road and plunged into a canal. Earlier, a team led by excise superintendent Samuel Hika tried to intercept the car after getting information that ganja (dry cannabis) was being illegally […]

Berhampur: Excise department officials of Berhampur on Thursday arrested three persons in two different cases for peddling around 170 Kgs of Ganja. As per reports, the excise sleuths laid a trap on NH-16 near Lanjipalli in Berhampur at 9am after getting a tip off about two suspected Ganja peddler. They apprehended a pickup truck at […]