Assam: Over 1,400 cartons of liquor bottles worth Rs 46 lakh destroyed on court’s order

Over 1,400 cartons of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) bottles worth Rs 46 lakh were destroyed by the Assam government on court’s order in Guwahati.

The IMFL bottles were seized by Bureau of Investigation (BIEO) Assam during a 2017 raid in Guwahati. The liquor bottles were kept in a bonded warehouse at Lalmati area in the capital city of Assam.

The excise department and BIEO on Tuesday destroyed the seized IMFL bottles in presence of a Magistrate.

A top official of BIEO said the agency raided godown premises of a liquor baron located near Sarusajai stadium in Guwahati in 2017 and recovered 1,405 cartons of different brands of IMFL.

“We had registered a case (no 17/2017) in connection with it and filed chargesheet before the court. The court had directed us to destroy the seized liquor bottles on September 14 this year. Following directive of the court, we have destroyed the seized liquor bottles. The market value of the seized liquor is estimated at around Rs 46.21 lakh,” the BIEO official said.

Earlier, the Assam government had destroyed a huge quantity of seized drugs worth Rs 163 crore.

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