A big consignment of illicit liquor was seized by Dehradun police in wee hours of Thursday in Patel Nagar area. On a tip off a joint team of Special Task Force (STF) and Patel Nagar police station stopped a SUV at 4.30 am on Thursday and confiscated a cache of Indian Made of Foreign liquor (IMFl) from the vehicle. The consignment was ostensibly for Rishikesh and Dehradun areas of Uttarakhand. The Police informed that the cache had three branded varieties of 972 bottles of IMFl worth lakhs of Rupees.
The police team has seized the consignment and arrested two persons in this connection. The arrested are Dharmendra Singh and Jasvindra Singh both residents of Patiala in Punjab. Cases of excise act and 207 motor vehicles act have been registered against the accused.
The Senior Superintendent of Police STF has recently constituted a cell to check illegal flow of liquor in the district and operation of Thursday was accomplished by this cell.
The police team consisted of Inspector STF, D C Dhaundiyal, Sub Inspector Tushar Bora, SI Ashutosh Rana and constable Brijendra, Anant Kumar and Santosh while the Patel Nagar police station personnel SI Manmohan Singh Negi and constables Mohit Verma, Vipin Chandra and Dharampal helped the STF in the operation.