Man held with smuggled liquor

Varanasi | Thursday | 14th February, 2019

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Varanasi: A man was arrested with smuggled liquor worth Rs 50 lakh in Haldi area of Ballia district on Wednesday. He was booked under sections 60 (1) of Excise Act 272, 273, 419, 420, 467 and 468 of IPC. The police recovered 15,408 bottles packed in 321 cartons from a truck.The police said that during interrogation the arrested person confessed that the liquor consignment was smuggled from Haryana. The liquor was being smuggled from Haryana.According to reports, acting on a tip-off the police succeeded in nabbing a smuggler Vijay Kumar, a native of Rajasthan, in Ramgarh locality, while three others managed to flee..