The Kolaras police of the district on Monday seized illegally transported India-Made Foreign liquor (IMFl). The seized liquor is reportedly owned by liquor contractor laxminarain Shivhare. later, a team of district police also checked the stocks at Shivhare’s liquor shop in Shivpuri.
On Sunday night, Superintendent of Police Sunil Kumar Pandey was tipped off that a truck laden with IMFl was being transported from Shipuri to Indore.
This information was immediately passed on to SDOP of Kolaras Sujeet Singh Bhadouriya. Subsequently, a team of police headed by Kolaras police station SHO Avneet Sharma, Tendua police station in-charge, SI Kadir Khan and ASI Ramendra Sengar erected checking points.
When a truck (MP 09 GF 8667) coming from Shivpuri was checked, the liquor bottles were found below the crates of tomatoes.
A total of 560 cartons of liquor were recovered whose estimated cost is Rs 50 lakh.
The Kolaras police have registered a case under section 34 (2) of the Excise Act against driver and cleaner of the truck.
The arrested accused persons have been identified as truck driver 26-year-old lokesh Jatav of Ujjain district and cleaner Mahesh Bagri (21 years) of Ujjain. During preliminary investigation, it was found that the liquor was being transported to Indore, but it is yet to be investigated as who was going to receive the consignment.