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The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has arrested 2 alleged smugglers and seized a consignment of Indian-made overseas liquor worthy astir ₹60 lakh that was being smuggled from Punjab to Bihar, a poll-bound adust State, officials said connected Tuesday.
On Monday night, the STF arrested the 2 accused from the Purvanchal Expressway adjacent Kandharapur successful Azamgarh district. The accused were identified arsenic Bhima Ram and Yogesh Kumar, some residents of Rajasthan’s Barmer district, the constabulary said successful a statement.
Acting connected quality inputs astir an inter-State liquor-smuggling web operating successful eastbound Uttar Pradesh, the STF’s Varanasi tract unit, led by Inspector Anil Kumar Singh, conducted a associated cognition with the section constabulary and the Excise Department, starring to the seizure of 537 cartons of liquor, the connection said.
Officials said the liquor was allegedly being transported successful a instrumentality motortruck with fake registration plates. The accused were allegedly moving for an inter-State liquor trader named Ashu, based successful Chandigarh, they said.
According to the STF, Ashu had loaded the liquor successful Punjab and allegedly provided fake documents showing a consignment of snacks and chips worthy ₹12 lakh to conceal the bottles.
The motortruck was reportedly meant to present the consignment to a Bihar-based smuggler named Rahul, the STF added. Bihar, which is owed for elections, has enforced a implicit prohibition connected liquor since 2016.
Investigations revealed that the container’s chassis and registration numbers had allegedly been tampered with to evade detection during conveyance checks. When the registration details were verified, the existent motortruck proprietor from Maharashtra’s Bhiwandi confirmed via a video telephone that his conveyance was parked there, establishing that the seized vehicle’s documents were forged, officials said.
A lawsuit has been registered astatine Kandharapur constabulary presumption successful Azamgarh nether Section 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Sections 60, 63, and 72 of the Uttar Pradesh Excise Act.
