It is learnt that a team of Excise department officials raided a private sleeper luxury bus at Anmod check-post on Goa-Karnataka border and seized 319 litres of Goa-made liquor worth Rs 34 lakh hidden in cartoons. This incidentally is the second such seizure in 12 days of liquor being transported illegally from Goa. Karnataka excise officials reportedly seized around 158 litres of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) at Anmod check-post near the Goa-Karnataka border recently. The stock was concealed inside a Gujarat registered tempo. The Goa excise department doesn't issue a liquor transport permit (TP) to Karnataka and Maharashtra as the excise policies of these two states do not allow it. As elections to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly are round the corner, it is obvious that there will be an increase in the smuggling activities of liquor bottles across the state border. As the election date approaches, one can anticipate an increase in illegal transportation of liquor from across the border, due to which it is necessary to maintain alert 24X7.
