Vadodara: In two major seizures in a day, Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) worth Rs 1 crore was seized from the jurisdiction of Vadodara rural police.
While one consignment was seized from near Karjan on National Highway 48 by local crime branch (LCB) late Monday night, another consignment was seized by rapid response (RR) cell of Vadodara range IG on Tuesday evening near toll plaza in Karjan.
The RR cell, intercepted a truck registered in Haryana near Karjan toll plaza and found 1,602 boxes of liquor in it. Cops arrested the driver and cleaner Anilkumar Paswan and Umeshkumar Paswan, who told the police that the liquor stock was dispatched from Haryana. The duo was also instructed to call on a phone number after crossing toll plaza. “The total value of the liquor is Rs 77 lakh. There were more than 50,000 bottles in the truck,” said H P Zala, police sub-inspector, RR cell.
In another seizure, liquor consignment was found from a parked truck. LCB sleuths said that they had received tip-off about a truck from Andhra Pradesh parked outside a highway hotel near Valan village in Karjan. On basis of the information, police found the truck, but there was nobody around it. The cops waited there for an hour, but when nobody turned up, the police checked the truck.
A police official said that they found steel boxes and scraped refrigerators in the truck. However, after moving them the cops found 511 boxes of liquor. Market price of the liquor stock was estimated at Rs 25 lakh, cops said.
The liquor consignment that was seized from Karjan on National Highway 48 contained 1,602 boxes of liquor in the truck