1,048 liquor bottles seized, 11 arrested in Erode district

Erode: Eleven men were arrested and 1,048 liquor bottles were seized from them while being smuggled from Karnataka in two different searches conducted on Wednesday and Thursday.
While checking passengers who disembarked from the Bengaluru-Kanyakumari Island Express on Wednesday evening, the Erode railway police seized 144 bottles of liquor from N Sundaresh, 32, and K Srinath, 29, both residents of Bengaluru.
Similarly, the railway police seized 70 liquor bottles from Ajith Kumar, 34, and Jeevanantham, 38, of Tirupur, who were travelling in the same train.
The Erode railway police also arrested four passengers of Mysuru-Thoothukudi Fast Express on the same night. “We have arrested P Mani, 28, of Mysuru, and P Paramasivam, 32, K Mani, 32, and V Ranjith Kumar, 30, and seized 550 liquor bottles from them,” a railway police officer said. He said that they have arrested eight more passengers and seized 764 bottles from them.
Similarly, the Kadambur police on Thursday arrested G Karthik, 29, of Samraj Nagar in Karnataka, N Marimuthu, 20, of Kadambur, and A Kumaresan, 30, of Kadambur for smuggling liquor from Karnataka.
“We have seized three bikes and 284 liquor bottles from them,” a police officer said. tnn