With liquor outlets remaining shut during the ongoing lockdown, bootleggers are doing their bit to exploit the situation. On Sunday, the Gangnahar police in Roorkee seized a pick-up vehicle smuggling 167 cartons of liquor.
The police had received information about smuggling of illegal liquor in a pick-up vehicle. The police then formed a team and seized the vehicle smuggling the liquor.
Haridwar superintendent of police (Rural) Swapan Kishore Singh said that accused Mukesh Kumar, a resident of Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) informed that that a man named Joginder had told him to deliver this pickup to Roorkee. An FIR has been lodged against the accused under sections 60, 72 of Excise Act, sections 188, 269, 270 of IPC and 51B National Disaster Management Act 2005.