898 boxes of illegal foreign liquor were recovered from a commercial gas tanker in a village in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh. A police officer gave this information to a news agency. According to which there was 80006.4 liters of liquor in a total of 10776 bottles in the recovered boxes. The total cost of the recovered liquor is said to be around Rs 1.10 crore.
Additional Superintendent of Police (Naxal) Tribhuvan Nath Tripathi said on Sunday that the police received information from the informer late on Saturday that illegal liquor was being brought to the Indane gas tanker. On information, when the police stopped the tanker and searched it, a large amount of illegal foreign liquor was recovered from it.
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Truck driver hails from Rajasthan
In police interrogation, the driver showed the tax invoice issued by the Indian Oil Corporation. The said invoice belonged to Jalandhar Terminal of Indian Oil Corporation. It was released in favor of a gas service in Jhansi. Illegal liquor was being taken in the tanker under the guise of gas transport papers.
On interrogation by the police, the driver told that he was taking liquor from Jalandhar to Ranchi in Jharkhand. The police have arrested the tanker driver Jagmal Singh. The driver hails from Balotra district of Rajasthan. At present, the police is conducting further investigation in the case.