Gujarat CID crime seizes smuggled liquor worth over Rs 1 crore near Rajasthan border, nabs 4

Gujarat CID crime seizes smuggled liquor worth over Rs 1 crore near Rajasthan border, nabs 4

Gandhinagar/Modasa: As part of a fresh state wide operation against bootleggers across Gujarat after the suspected hooch tragedy of Surat claiming 21 lives in the southern district, a team of CID crime today seized smuggled liquor worth over Rs one crore near Shamlaji in Aravalli district in North Gujarat and arrested four persons in this connection.

Earlier yesterday the CID crime had also seized Indian Made Foreign Liquor worth around Rs 14 lakh from NH 8 in Valsad district.

Police today said that the CID crime team had a tip off regarding four trucks loaded with liquor coming from neighbouring Rajasthan. The team traced three such trucks near Shamlaji check post today and seized liquor worth over Rs one crore from them.

It also arrested four persons from the trucks.

The CID crime team was also trying to trace the fourth truck.

DeshGujarat