Chunbhatti police have seized a 162 litres of liquor worth over Rs 67,500 near Kaliasot Dam in the wee hours on Friday.
Acting on a tip off, regarding car carrying liquor was moving from Ratibad towards Kaliasot Dam police acted swiftly and raided the place where car was tracked and nabbed person driving and involved in transportation of liquor illegally.
The nabbed was identified as Prashant Sikarwar (21) tried to escape but was chased and arrested by police.
During the investigation police found that the Prashant was involved in the dealing of liquor as he is local liquor dealer and would sell it to remote places. The car bearing registration number MP04CJ7850 was seized from the spot.
Car was having 18 cartons carrying 162 litre of liquor were found in the car. The car was worth Rs 3 lakh which was sized from accused. Police have registered a case under section 34 (2) of the Excise Act. Details of the nabbed accused and liquor seized would be searched in the further investigation.
Meanwhile, Khajuri Sadak police have arrested a bootlegger from a passenger in Indore- Bhopal bus on Thursday;295 bottles of country made liquor were seized from his possession.
Jitendra Kushwaha was arrested by police from bus bearing registration number MP04PA2979 who alighted bus from Shujalpur to Bhopal and kept two bags in dickey of bus. The bags were checked and 53.1 litres of liquor was found in the bags.