Illicit liquor, cash, and jewellery worth more than ₹21 crore have been seized in a joint operation conducted by the state police, excise, and mining departments in Himachal, ever since the model conduct came into force for the ensuing assembly election, an election department spokesperson revealed this on Wednesday.
In past 24 hours alone, cash worth ₹5 lakh and around 1,215.470 litres of illicit liquor, said to be worth Rs. 1,90,069, were seized during the checks carried out by the police department in various parts of the state.
The spokesman said that during the nakas by the income tax department, cash worth ₹2.15 crore and gold worth Rs. 44 lakh was also seized. The excise department also captured 20,176.965 litres of illicit liquor worth Rs. 45 lakh.
So far, illicit liquor, cash, narcotics, etc. worth ₹21 crore have been seized by different law enforcement agencies.
A similar case also surfaced on Monday and action was taken by the police. All the liquor, cash, and jewellery were seized by police.