GHAZIABAD: Liquor value just about Rs 50 lakh was seized in Indirapuram on Tuesday whilst the consignment was being transported from Delhi to UP, billed as soybean.
The consignment, being transported in a truck, contained 842 cartons of liquor bottles bearing logo names corresponding to Signature, Royal Challenge and McDowell’s. Police stated samples of the seized alcohol can be despatched to a forensic science laboratory to check whether it is spurious. The truck, bearing a Rajasthan registration number, has additionally been seized whilst its motive force Vikramjeet Singh (50) and his assistant Jagraj Singh (42) have been arrested.
Vikramjeet and Jagraj are believed to have told police all over wondering that they'd picked up the pattern from a service in Ambala in Punjab. They told a information conference on Tuesday that no less than on two occasions previous, they'd transported such consignments from Punjab to Kanpur, the place consumption of spurious liquor had ended in no less than 12 deaths between May 19 and 21.
“We had picked up the consignment from Ambala. The person who had passed it over to us had given us a mobile phone too. We have been being continuously guided over the phone at the route to take,” stated Vikramjeet Singh.
“Most of the bottles had labels of ‘supposed for sale in Haryana only’ however did not lift worth tags on them. We are sending the samples for analysis to check if the bottles contained spurious liquor,” stated Indirapuram circle officer Ravi Kumar.
The consignment, being transported in a truck, contained 842 cartons of liquor bottles bearing logo names corresponding to Signature, Royal Challenge and McDowell’s. Police stated samples of the seized alcohol can be despatched to a forensic science laboratory to check whether it is spurious. The truck, bearing a Rajasthan registration number, has additionally been seized whilst its motive force Vikramjeet Singh (50) and his assistant Jagraj Singh (42) have been arrested.
Vikramjeet and Jagraj are believed to have told police all over wondering that they'd picked up the pattern from a service in Ambala in Punjab. They told a information conference on Tuesday that no less than on two occasions previous, they'd transported such consignments from Punjab to Kanpur, the place consumption of spurious liquor had ended in no less than 12 deaths between May 19 and 21.
“We had picked up the consignment from Ambala. The person who had passed it over to us had given us a mobile phone too. We have been being continuously guided over the phone at the route to take,” stated Vikramjeet Singh.
“Most of the bottles had labels of ‘supposed for sale in Haryana only’ however did not lift worth tags on them. We are sending the samples for analysis to check if the bottles contained spurious liquor,” stated Indirapuram circle officer Ravi Kumar.
Smuggled liquor worth Rs 50 lakh from Punjab seized in Ghaziabad
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