Bihar man caught with 120 liquor bottles at railway station
TNN | Updated: Mar 5, 2019, 07:16 IST
The accused, Rakesh Kumar, had bought bottles from Chandigarh at nominal cost and was going to sell these in Bihar at higher ratesCHANDIGARH: The Railway Police Force (RPF) on Sunday night seized as many as 120 bottles of liquor from a man at Chandigarh railway station. The accused has been identified as Rakesh Kumar from Bihar.
According to officials of the RPF, during checking at the platform No 3 on Sunday night they found that Rakesh was sitting with four bags. On asking about the contents of the bag, he has no proper answer after which his luggage was checked and the liquor was recovered.
Officials said during interrogation Rakesh revealed that he had bought bottles from Chandigarh at nominal cost and was going to sell these in Bihar at higher rates. The accused had he tried to mislead the officials by saying that he had bought the bottles for some celebration at home, later he accepted that he wanted to sell the same.
The officials said the liquor smugglers rope in a resident of that state where they want to send the consignment and mid journey that person hands over the cartons to them. The RPF officials said that they would further interrogate the accused to know how many persons were involved in it.
Rajesh Rana, SHO of the RPF, said the seized bottles had been handed over to the Government Railway Police (GRP) for further action. A case was registered by the GRP under the Excise Act.
last year, as many as 1,239 liquor bottles were recovered by the GRP as there was a steep hike in smuggling of liquor from Chandigarh railway station to Uttar Pardesh. Out of these, 333 bottles were recovered from seven residents of Uttar Pardesh and 908 bottles were found unclaimed at the station. The GRP records of 2017 revealed that 542 liquor bottles of various brands were recovered from the station that year.
Meanwhile, in January 2018 the highest number of unclaimed 340 bottles of liquor seized from platform No 1 of the railway station. For the first time the gang involved in smuggling liquor used black iron boxes to store the bottles so that the railway police did not suspect anything untoward and not conduct checking of the boxes that were lying near the parcel area, the officials added.
According to officials of the RPF, during checking at the platform No 3 on Sunday night they found that Rakesh was sitting with four bags. On asking about the contents of the bag, he has no proper answer after which his luggage was checked and the liquor was recovered.
Officials said during interrogation Rakesh revealed that he had bought bottles from Chandigarh at nominal cost and was going to sell these in Bihar at higher rates. The accused had he tried to mislead the officials by saying that he had bought the bottles for some celebration at home, later he accepted that he wanted to sell the same.
The officials said the liquor smugglers rope in a resident of that state where they want to send the consignment and mid journey that person hands over the cartons to them. The RPF officials said that they would further interrogate the accused to know how many persons were involved in it.
Rajesh Rana, SHO of the RPF, said the seized bottles had been handed over to the Government Railway Police (GRP) for further action. A case was registered by the GRP under the Excise Act.
last year, as many as 1,239 liquor bottles were recovered by the GRP as there was a steep hike in smuggling of liquor from Chandigarh railway station to Uttar Pardesh. Out of these, 333 bottles were recovered from seven residents of Uttar Pardesh and 908 bottles were found unclaimed at the station. The GRP records of 2017 revealed that 542 liquor bottles of various brands were recovered from the station that year.
Meanwhile, in January 2018 the highest number of unclaimed 340 bottles of liquor seized from platform No 1 of the railway station. For the first time the gang involved in smuggling liquor used black iron boxes to store the bottles so that the railway police did not suspect anything untoward and not conduct checking of the boxes that were lying near the parcel area, the officials added.
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