AHMEDABAD: The district police on Wednesday caught three persons, including two cops and a son of a retired deputy superintendent of police, in connection with the liquor seizure of Rs 6.81 lakh from Kanbha on January 9.
The accused were identified as Jaspal Singh Pawar, 40, a resident of Vastrapur, Yuvrajsinh Rathod, 27, and Mahendrasinh Makwana, 42, both residents of Nava Naroda.
Pawar is son of a retired DySP Narendra Singh Pawar and was into liquor business in garb of running PGs in Vastrapur and Bodakdev areas. Rathod works as police constable with Women’s Police (west) and Makwana is a constable and works as driver in motor transport department of the city police.
Sources in Ahmedabad rural police said that the state monitoring cell had on January 9 caught 4,810 Indian made foreign liquor bottles from a truck parked near a farm in Kanbha.
After a case under the prohibition act was registered, Ahmedabad rural police began an investigation into the case and nabbed Rajendra Singh Jat, 52, and Amit Jat, 34, from Bahadurgadh in Haryana on January 11.
During the investigation, involvement of the two cops and Pawar came into the light after which they were caught by the police.
