India, Sept. 18 -- The Managing Director of a private Malayalam news channel was arrested by Excise officials from Kochi in the wee hours of Thursday after liquor above the permissible limit was recovered during a police search at his ancestral house in Wayanad, Excise officials said. The Excise department registered a case against Anto Augustine based on the police report after they recovered liquor above the permissible limit during the search, they said, adding that 67 litres of liquor was found at his home in Wayanad.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Wednesday searched the office and residences of Augustine and his two brothers in Kochi and Wayanad as part of a probe into alleged irregularities in a failed football event featu...