Gairsain police in Chamoli district have arrested three liquor smugglers and recovered nearly one hundred bottles of English liquor and two dozen beer cans from an utility vehicle from a place near Aadibadri on late Tuesday night. The vehicle was impounded too.
According to the information received from the SP office, a police team while acting on a tip-off stopped a vehicle with three persons on near Chowki Aadibadri. After the vehicle was searched 96 bottles of Whiskey and 24 beer cans, meant to be sold in Haryana, were recovered.
The trio has been identified as Vikas Sindhu resident of village Sivana, Berri, district Jhajjhar, Deepak Paanchal, resident of Supra Chowk Power House, Sadar, district Rohtak and Pradeep Deshwal, resident of Dulhera, Sadar, district Jhajjar, all from Haryana. The police have registered a case against the trio under section 60/72 of Excise Act.
Police said that it is a common practice of the liquor smugglers to illegally smuggle liquor from Haryana and Chandigarh and to sell it among the people inhabiting the remote villages in mountainous districts of the State.