BAREILLY: Shahjahanpur police recovered Indian-Made Foreign Liquor worth Rs 11 lakh from a diesel tanker in Sadar Bazar area of Shahjahanpur late on Monday. Nearly 130 cartons of liquor -- being smuggled from Haryana to Bihar -- were kept in a secret compartment of the diesel tanker. Police have also arrested six smugglers, four of them were following the tanker from Haryana in a car.
“We have also recovered fake labels of liquor brands from the car. This gang had been engaged in smuggling of liquor for years,” said police
An FIR has been registered at Sadar Bazar police station under sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable property, will), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (fraudulently using any forged document as a genuine document) of IPC along with sections 60 and 63 of the State Excise Act against Nasir Ali, Vinod, Bhagwan Singh, Mahendra, Jasveer and Bharat. All the accused were sent to jail on Tuesday.
Shahjahanpur SSP S Anand told TOI, “Our special operations team received a tip-off that liquor was being smuggled in a diesel tanker. The suspected vehicle was intercepted by sub-inspector Rohit Kumar and his team but they only found diesel in the tanker. When the truck driver and the helper were questioned separately, one of them revealed the way of opening the secret chamber. It was a specially made tanker with two compartments. Since liquor is banned in Bihar, they were expecting to sell it at a premium price.”
