A BEST bus at Bandra depot has been seized and driver has been arrested by the Tulinj police in Nalasopara for allegedly smuggling liquor in a mini BEST bus meant to transport frontline workers amid the coronavirus pandemic.

"We received credible information thatalcogol was being transported in a BEST bus from Nalasopara to Mumbai. We laid a trap and seized the BEST bus and confiscated beer cartons, wine, whiskey, desi liquor bottles, which were supposed to be handed over to a person in Sion," said an officer attached to Tulinj police station.