The Ghaziabad police on Sunday arrested two bootleggers, including a girl, and recovered smuggled liquor. The police nabbed the duo after a raid in Industrial area of Sahibabad and recovered around a dozen cartons of Indian made foreign liquor from their possession.
The police, after receiving information from local residents of the area that they have caught the accused girl, reached the spot and took action.
“Although the villagers of Karkar model at the border of Delhi had been complaining since long about the illegal sale of smuggled liquor from Haryana, no effective action was initiated against the smugglers. On Sunday, about over 1,000 villagers nabbed a woman with the stock of liquor and called the police at control room. In the presence of villagers, the police seized the cartons and took the woman and her brother in custody," said Ashish Rawal, a local resident.
“Every tenth house is engaged in the illegal sale of smuggled liquor. We had lodged several complaints to the police right from police station level to the SSP, but no action was taken. Only minimum recordable seizure was shown by the police. The villagers nabbed the woman smuggler red-handed and called the police at control room. The police seized the liquor and arrested the woman who disclosed her named as Juli,” informed Rawal.
“We have arrested two persons-the woman Juli and her brother Alok. The inventory is being prepared of the seized articles”, said Upendra Yadav, Inspector, link Road police station.