Vadodara: A truck driver from Rajasthan, ferrying liquor worth Rs 10 lakh, was arrested at Karjan toll plaza on national highway-48.
Acting on a tip-off, the local crime branch of Vadodara rural police caught the truck coming from South Gujarat carrying the consignment. The truck registered in Surat had stocked the liquor in cardboard boxes. We found 3,156 bottles of IMFL, said inspector D B Vala of LCB.
Driver Vijeshkumar Purohit revealed that two persons named Ramalal Bishnoi and Suresh Bishnoi has asked him to take the to Junagadh for delivery to a bootlegger. Purohit drove the truck from a hotel near Manor in Maharashtra and was going to Junagadh.
It also came to light that the accused had replaced the original labels of the bottles with fake ones. “Usually, the smuggled liquor also has batch numbers mentioned on the bottles through which its origin can be known. But the seized bottles had fake labels due to which the state of its origin and manufacturing unit is difficult to ascertain,” a police official said.