With general elections round the corner, Delhi Police is maintaining a tight vigil on the criminal activities across its border which resulted in arrest of a man allegedly trying to smuggle illicit liquor in national Capital.
Police have seized 31 cartons, containing 1504 quarters ‘For Sale in Haryana only’ recovered from the accused vehicle during a picket checking at South-east Delhi’s Okhala Mandi area.
The accused has been identified as Prashant Kumar (34) a resident of Delhi’s Palam Colony, Sadh Nagar who was nabbed by the sleuths of South-East district on wee hours of Thursday.
“A police team deputed at C-Block picket, East of Kailash in Delhi was checking vehicles when around 6 AM on Thursday the team signaled the car driver to stop the vehicle but rather than slowing down he tried to flee but was nabbed at next picket in the area,” said Chinmoy Biswal, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South-east district.
“During search of his vehicle, 23 cartons containing 1104 quarters of ‘Impact Whisky’ were found on the rear seat and eight other cartons containing 400 quarters of desi sharab (local liquor) ‘For sale in Haryana only’ were recovered from the boot space of the vehicle. Accordingly a case under Excise Act was registered in Delhi’s Amar Colony police station and investigation was taken up,” said the DCP.
“During interrogation the accused disclosed that he used to work as driver on part-time basis and was addicted to liquor and smoking. In order to meet his needs and earn quick money, he started supplying liquor illegally in Delhi-NCR,” said the DCP. “The accused used to procure liquor at cheap rates from liquor godowns of Gurugram and used to supply it to bootleggers of Ghaziabad. In order to evade from detection, he used to transport liquor in the night and early morning hours” the DCP added.