Ahmedabad: Liquor worth Rs 64,000 found in hidden trench at Raska weir

AHMEDABAD: The Raska weir, which was meant to quench thirst of the people of Ahmedabad was also being used by bootleggers as a base of operations to quench the thirst of tipplers. On Thursday, city police filed a case after Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) bottles worth Rs 64,000 were found from a secret trench beneath the pipelines of Raska weir on Wednesday.
A squad of deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Zone-2 got an input that some persons were selling liquor on Sabarmati riverbank behind Motera stadium and towards the pipelines of Raska weir.
“We came to know a person named Ratan Laal, resident of Acher in Sabarmati, had concealed a huge number of liquor bottles beneath the land in a secret trench under the Raska pipeline,” said a head constable of DCP, Zone-2 squad, Mukesh Ramsang.
He said a team of cops rushed there and began searching for the liquor on Wednesday night. The cops found a man wearing a pink shirt and black trousers who was guarding a place on the banks of Sabarmati river.
When he was questioned on what he was doing there, he began fumbling and with strict questioning, he confessed that he worked for the main accused Ratan Laal.
The man, Rajesh Thakor, 20, resident of Acher, told cops that he was deployed there as security guard by Laal who\s concealed liquor beneath the pipelines of Raska weir.
Police personnel dug in the place shown by Thakor and found boxes of whisky bottles and beer tins in there.
According to the FIR, 267 whisky bottles and 184 beer tins were found from the place.