Muzaffarpur: Excise authorities are in a tizzy following seizure of fake foreign liquor in the district.

District magistrate Dharmendra Kumar said smugglers have set up illegal liquor factories outside the state and are supplying illicit alcohol by pasting logos of branded liquor on the bottles.

Suspected samples were sent to the forensic sciences laboratory, which confirmed fake foreign liquor was being supplied.

Excise superintendent Dinbandhu said the excise team has so far seized 10,000 litres of fake foreign liquor from the bootleggers.

A vehicle used to smuggle in this liquor was found to bear a Nagaland registration number.

Till last year, the excise team had seized branded foreign liquor and vehicles used to smuggle it coming from Haryana, Punjab, New Delhi or Assam.

City superintendent of police (SP) Upendranath Verma said the town police seized 76 cartons of suspected fake foreign liquor kept in a maize field in Chak Habibullah village under Ahiyapur police station in the north Bihar district on Thursday night.

Verma said he has ordered scientific tests at the forensic science laboratory.

"Some samples including wraps and logo on the bottles will be sent to the laboratory," the city superintendent of police said.