Overview
- The Delhi Excise Department said it auctioned over 2,000 vehicles seized under the Excise Act and recovered about Rs 5 crore, freeing space at police stations and on nearby public land.
- The department reported that the Excise Control Laboratory has cleared more than 5,000 pending chemical analysis cases and that the active backlog is now zero.
- The laboratory has filled long-vacant staff posts and begun a modernisation drive so that chemical analysis reports for seized liquor samples are now produced within days, the department said.
- Officials said the combined changes, announced Sunday, should speed police investigations and court filings because timely lab reports remove a key procedural delay in excise cases.
- The government said the disposal and testing push is continuing as a systematic exercise, and it presents these steps as part of a wider effort to make administration more transparent and outcome-oriented under Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.