Liquor worth Rs 17 lakh seized from truck
SURAT: The detection of crime branch (DCB) on Tuesday seized Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) and beer worth nearly Rs 17 lakh from truck near Amroli checkpost on Tuesday.
Following specific information, a DCB team kept a watch near the checkpost and stopped the truck and found 341 boxes of beer and 8,820 bottles of IMFL.
Police arrested DipendraSinh Rajput, a resident of Vapi and Mohhamed Zuber Ansari, a resident of Saiyadpura of Surat. Both are aides of listed bootleggers Firoz Fruitwala and his brother Salim.
Primary interrogation revealed that the brothers had ordered liquor from one Parmeshwar Pande alias Sahu, a resident of Vapi. Sahu loaded the consignment in the truck and sent it.
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