26 smuggled liquor bottles seized in Coimbatore

COIMBATORE: The city police arrested a 28-year-old man for smuggling 26 liquor bottles in a van on Friday.
Peelamedu police inspector Vivekanandan and team conducted a vehicle check near the Fun Republic Mall on Avinashi Road at Peelamedu after receiving a tip-off.
“The team stopped a pickup van on the way from Bengaluru to Coimbatore city. Though they checked the vehicle thoroughly, they could not find anything. The cops asked van driver Kalaiyarasan, 28, of Nadukani near Gudalur in Nilgiris district, to open the bonnet and found 26 liquor bottles hidden there,” a police officer said.
Police seized the vehicle and the bottles.
Kalaiyarasan told police that he bought the liquor from Bengaluru. “He was working as a driver in a courier company and was planning to sell the liquor here to make some quick cash,” the officer added. The Peelamedu police registered a case against Kalaiyarasan under the Tamil Nadu Prohibition Act, 1937. He was later released on conditional bail.