The Mhow police while patrolling on the highway at Kishanganj police station area stopped the truck bearing registration number (2096).
On opening the container 709 boxes of Indian Made Foreign liquor (IMFl) and 340 boxes of beer was found. The truck driver and the cleaner escaped from the truck. Addl SP Mhow Arvind Tiwari told The Pioneer that the seized liquor costs around Rs 50 lakh. The police have registered a case under Sections 34, 36 and 46 of the Excise Act.
The police are round 6the clock patrolling on all the four highways that pass through Mhow and regularly arrange the police check-post on highways, he added.