Mumbai: Cops raid hooch-making material in Gorai hotel, find it was stored by Excise dept

Updated On: 02 July, 2015 05:00 PM IST | | Shirish Vaktania

<p>The MHB police seized hooch mixers, rubber tubes, and boats used to transport hooch by sea from the hotel; they later learnt that the Excise department had stored the items for lack of space on their own premises</p>

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Mumbai: Cops raid hooch-making material in Gorai hotel, find it was stored by Excise dept

A squad of cops was exhilarated when they raided a Gorai hotel and seized material used to make and transport hooch. Their happiness, however, was short-lived when they learnt that the material had been stored not by a nefarious gang of hooch peddlers but the Excise department, who had seized it months earlier from hooch units.

Police said they didn’t know the material had been kept there by the Excise department