Excise dept seizes suspected fake liquor worth Rs 11.55 lakh in Pune, Ahilyanagar; 3 held

Pune, October 30, 2026: The State Excise department has seized liquor worth Rs 11.55 lakh in action in Pune and Ahilyanagar districts and arrested three people. State Excise Superintendent Ravikiran Kole gave the information.

According to Kole, a team of the Narayangaon excise division was on patrol on October 30 when it received information that suspected fake liquor was being kept for sale at Bangarwadi, which falls within the limits of Belhe village in Junnar taluka. The team reached the spot and carried out a check.

The team found 96 sealed bottles of suspected fake Royal Stag whisky, valued at Rs 24,000. It also found 5,040 bottles of GM Santra country liquor, valued at Rs 4.03 lakh. Kole said goods worth a total of Rs 4.27 lakh were seized from this location.

The matter did not end there. Based on information obtained from those arrested, officials also recovered suspected fake liquor from Alkuti village in Parner taluka of Ahilyanagar district. Here, 1,392 bottles with Royal Stag labels and 1,728 bottles with Imperial Blue labels were found. Their total value is Rs 7.28 lakh. The whisky bottles reportedly carried fake caps and labels.

Kole also gave the names of those arrested. Sachin Ganpat Gadge (40) and Tahir Yusuf Shaikh (43) are residents of Nimgaon Sawa in Junnar taluka. The third accused, Sagar Ramdas Borude (27), is a resident of Alkuti in Parner taluka.

A case has been registered against all three under the Maharashtra Prohibition Act, 1949. Kole said further investigation is being carried out by Sharad Jadhav, inspector of the Narayangaon excise division.

In the action across the two districts, goods worth Rs 4.27 lakh were seized from Bangarwadi and Rs 7.28 lakh from Alkuti, which together come to Rs 11.55 lakh.