With the arrest of two persons in Gorakhpur on Saturday night, the Special Task Force (STF) claimed to have busted a gang of inter-state bootleggers.
The arrested were identified as Rakesh Pal of Haryana and Baljinder Singh of Punjab and 9024 bottles of whisky of different brands estimate at Rs 15 lakh were recovered from them alongwith a mini truck which was being use for carting the contraband.
The sleuths were tipped off about the gang traveling by a mini truck and scheduled to deliver a consignment to a person in Gorakhpur. The cops developed the inputfurther nd learnt that the consignment was to be unloaded at a godown in Gagaha police station area of Gorakhpur. later a STF team raided the the place and nabbed the miscreants.
Both owned up their crime during quizzing. They disclosed that they have been smuggling liquor from Haryana to UP for a long time. They disclosed that they loaded the goods in Bathinda in Punjab and delivered the contraband to Ram Saran Prajapati of Basgaon village in Gorakhpur.
It surfaced that Rakesh had been arrested earlier in March 2016 for bootlegging and was sent to jail by Gorakhpur police. The recovered whisky was manufactured at Panipat and Mohali distilleries in Punjab.