Bootleggers posing as health team caught

Vadodara: Bootleggers in the city are getting crafty amid the lockdown trying newer ways to ferry the contraband surreptitiously around the city.
The detection of crime branch (DCB) on Thursday arrested two men for ferrying liquor in a car that had a special compartment under the seat. Not only that they also put up a signage, ‘On Duty SSG Hospital’, on the car to evade police interest.
“While cops check every vehicle passing from the city roads, emergency vehicles including ambulances and government vehicles, are not intercepted. These bootleggers tried to take advantage of it by posing as hospital staff,” said a crime branch official.
Based on a tip-off, cops reached the spot near Parshuram Bhatta in Sayajigunj on Thursday and accosted the vehicle and arrested bootlegger duo, Ravi Rajput and Natu Marwadi, from the spot.
Crime branch sleuths found the secret compartment below the seat, where they had stocked Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) worth about Rs 8,000.
Another accused Mahendra Marwadi is yet to be arrested.
The cops have stepped up vehicle search in the city over last few days after some people were found flashing fake identity cards to move around.