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“All accused are notorious liquor smugglers and have cases registered against them in their native state,” said a police officer. All three vehicles were impounded.Negi, who is the in-charge of Premnagar police station, said, “We had put up a barricade near Suddhowala chowk and Nanda Ki Chowki for checking. They were planning to allegedly smuggle liquor into Uttarakhand to earn easy money.According to police officers, in order to deceive cops, the accused had replaced registration plates of all three vehicles with local registration number plates. Police personnel stationed there in plain clothes stopped three vehicles, including a truck, and recovered 200 cartons of liquor.”The suspected smugglers have been identified as Mukesh Kumar, Naveen, Karamveer, Vishal, Dharmendra, Praveen, Vinod and Gaurav Kumar, all natives of Haryana. DEHRADUN: In one of the biggest such hauls to be seized ahead of the civic polls Dehradun police on Tuesday arrested eight bootleggers with 200 cartons of Haryana-brand liquor , approximately worth Rs 5 lakh, from near Suddhowala Chowk in Premnagar police station area.Acting on a tip-off, a police team led by inspector Dilbar Singh Negi intensified checking at Suddhowala chowk and Nanda Ki Chowki and recovered the illicit liquor, which was being smuggled in a truck, SUV and a car..