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