Liquor worth Rs 12 lakh was being taken from UP to Bihar, police foiled the plan, and 11 were arrested.

In Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, the police have arrested 11 liquor smugglers in two separate cases. These people were taking a large consignment of liquor to Bihar. Liquor is banned in Bihar, smugglers supply liquor illegally there and sell it at high prices. This time also they had the same intention. But the police foiled the plan of the liquor smugglers. The police have seized liquor worth 12 lakhs.

The case is of Bhanwarkol and Karimuddinpur area near the border of Bihar. Here Bhanwarkol police recovered English liquor worth about 6 lakh rupees from two smugglers in a truck. Karimuddinpur police arrested nine people with liquor worth about 6 lakh rupees in three vehicles.

Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary was being celebrated on 2 October across the country. The sale of liquor is completely prohibited on this day. Despite this, liquor smugglers were busy doing their work. Meanwhile, Karimuddinpur police and excise team got information that there is a plan to transport liquor to Bihar in three vehicles in Joga Musahib village. When the excise team and police department raided the place on the information, a total of 82 boxes of liquor were recovered from here. A total of 712 liters of liquor was recovered. Its estimated price is said to be around 6 lakh rupees.

Alcohol was to be sold at a high price.

All this liquor was planned to be taken to Bihar and sold at high prices. In this case, the police have started the action by detaining Amarnath Rai, Saddam, Aditya, Manish, Durgesh, Sameer, Amit Rai alias Golden Rai, Sunny Singh, and Jaikumar Singh.

At the same time, during the checking of vehicles in Bhanwarkol near the border of Bihar, the police seized liquor worth Rs 6 lakh from a truck. An informer had informed them about this. Liquor smugglers Rajesh Kumar Rai and Chotak alias Tukdu were arrested.

What did SP Rural say?

Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural), Atul Kumar Sonkar said that a huge amount of liquor has been seized from 11 smugglers in both the police station areas, and along with sending these people to jail through legal action, their other networks are also being busted.