Hyderabad: The Prohibition and Excise Department seized 90 bottles of liquor from Goa on Saturday night, which were brought for consumption on the occasion of New Year.
The bottles were recovered from a group of youths who bought bottles of liquor during a visit to Goa and brought them to the city by train. Acting on a tip-off, excise officials searched the train at Vikarabad and seized bottles worth over one lakh.
On the eve of the New Year celebrations, the department has stepped up surveillance at strategic locations to keep a tab on the flow of drugs besides the flow of non-duty paid liquor and liquor from other states, especially from Goa.