Sri Lanka, April 7 -- A leading liquor store chain owner cum hotelier had been booked by the Department of Excise yesterday for promoting booze sales through Facebook by using attractive discounts, thus violating the NATA Act. The Excise also took a large stock of foreign liquor kept in possession sans paying duty, the Daily Mirror learns.

The Excise following information that promotional liquor sales being carried out through a social media platform had raided a popular wine store in Borella and seized 128 bottles of a range of foreign liquor including expensive whiskey, brandy and vodka valued at over Rs.3 million (3, 000,000).

The departmental sources told the Daily Mirror that none of the liquor bottles bore the Excise security stic...