Excise officials nabbed three persons, including a woman, in a surprise raids in Konark on Monday and seized 60 bottles of liquor from three locations.
With an earlier tipoff, officials conducted the raids at Medical Square and Tourist Market in Konark and Nolia Sahi at Chandrabhaga where they recovered huge cache of alcohol bottles.
The persons booked were later sent to jail after being produced before the SDJM Court in Puri. They were identified as Ajay Kumar Rout (40), Ganapati Parbati (55) and Mina Das (55). The trio was illegally transporting alcohol bottles to other places keeping in three bags, said officials.
The seizure includes 46 bottles of Aska-40 and 14 bottles of foreign liquor kept in three bags, informed officials. Reportedly, the Excise officials are on a high alert in Konark ahead of the Chandrabhaga festival.