By Syed Omar Farooq

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Hyderabad: Excise cops seized non-duty paid liquor worth Rs 21.80 lakh being smuggled into Hyderabad city, exclusively for Dasara festival from Goa and Haryana, in the early hours of Saturday. The joint operation was conducted by Hyderabad Excise Enforcement teams, along with Ranga Reddy District Task Force. They seized 585 bottles of NDPL.Enforcement teams seized the contraband during frisking at Pahadishareef, said Rangareddy Enforcement AES Jeevan Kiran.According to the Telangana Excise Act Sections 9,10, an individual is permitted to bring only a single liquor bottle into the state from other states. The frisking will continue at hot spots, roads in the north and south Telangana till the festival concludes, Kiran said.Special teams were formed to check the smuggling of liquor basing on the instructions of Prohibition and Excise Director Shahnawaz Qasim.In separate incidents, over 136 NDPL bottles were seized from various places in the twin cities. Of this, 72 were seized from Secunderabad and Hyderabad, 47 from Dhoolpet, total worth Rs 6.80 lakh. They were seized from different houses in twin cities. The case is under investigation, Shahnawaz said.