The Uttar Pradesh Particular Activity Drive (STF) on Thursday busted an unlawful liquor nexus and seized as many as 765 bins of alcohol hidden inside a cargo of potatoes on its method to Bihar.
Regardless of a whole prohibition on liquor in Bihar, legal networks persist in working a nexus for supplying alcohol to the dry state.
The STF has intensified its crackdown on the unlawful transportation of liquor to states the place its sale is prohibited. Performing on a tip off, the STF group performed an operation below the jurisdiction of the Maharajpur police station in Prayagraj.
The operation resulted within the restoration of 765 bins of liquor from a truck, estimated to be price roughly Rs 1 crore. The truck driver has been arrested by the officers.
Upon interrogation, the detained suspect disclosed that the liquor was being transported from Punjab to Bihar, the place it instructions a better market value as a result of state’s prohibition.
The police are actively questioning the apprehended truck driver to establish the vacation spot inside Bihar and additional particulars concerning the big amount of liquor being transported.