Illicit liquor worth Rs 28 lakh seized, 2 held
Avishek Kumar Dubey | TNN | Mar 13, 2019, 07:06 ISTGhaziabad: Over 750 cartons of illicit liquor worth Rs 28.2 lakh were seized in Loni on Monday and two persons were arrested. The huge cache of liquor was to be smuggled to Loni from Haryana ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, police said.
After receiving information about a truck carrying illegal liquor, the police setup a check post on Ram Vihar road on Sunday night. “Around 3.30 pm on Monday, we spotted the truck and chased it. Soon after, we seized the vehicle and arrested two men,” police said.
Sanjay Verma, SHO of Loni police station told TOI that the arrested persons were identified as Bal Kishan (38) from Haryana and Amarchand (29) from Ghaziabad. “During questioning, they told us that some people had handed over the truck to them at the Haryana-Delhi border,” he added.
An FIR was lodged against the two men under IPC sections 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 272 (adulteration of food or drink intended for sale) and 273 (sale of noxious food or drink), and sections 60, 63 and 72 of the Excise Act. “These people are part of a big gang, which has been smuggling in illicit liquor to UP from Haryana via Rajasthan,” the SHO said.
After receiving information about a truck carrying illegal liquor, the police setup a check post on Ram Vihar road on Sunday night. “Around 3.30 pm on Monday, we spotted the truck and chased it. Soon after, we seized the vehicle and arrested two men,” police said.
Sanjay Verma, SHO of Loni police station told TOI that the arrested persons were identified as Bal Kishan (38) from Haryana and Amarchand (29) from Ghaziabad. “During questioning, they told us that some people had handed over the truck to them at the Haryana-Delhi border,” he added.
An FIR was lodged against the two men under IPC sections 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 272 (adulteration of food or drink intended for sale) and 273 (sale of noxious food or drink), and sections 60, 63 and 72 of the Excise Act. “These people are part of a big gang, which has been smuggling in illicit liquor to UP from Haryana via Rajasthan,” the SHO said.
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