Three arrested, five booked for selling smuggled liquor

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, January 13

The police have arrested three persons and booked another for sale of smuggled liquor. As many as 303 cases, along with 30 bottles of smuggled liquor (marked for sale in Chandigarh) were seized by the police. They also impounded a mini-truck used for transportation of the illicit liquor.

The Dehlon police, on a tip-off, set up a naka at the T-point of Sarinh on GT Road and stopped two vehicles, one Scorpio and one mini-truck Ace Mega. They recovered 301 cases of liquor (295 cases Naina whisky, five cases of Empire No. 1 whisky and one case Saufi liquor) from the mini-truck and a liquor dump in Alamgir village. While the two main suspects driving Scorpio sped away in the vehicle, the three others abandoned the mini truck and escaped.

The police have identified the two main suspects as Sukhdeep Singh, a resident of Gobind Nagar, Shimlapuri, and Sandeep Singh, a resident of New Janta Nagar, who have been booked under section 473 of the IPC and sections 61/1/14 of the Excise Act along with their three unidentified accomplices.

The Haibowal police nabbed Ayush and booked his accomplice Neelu, both residents of Rajan Estate, for sale of smuggled liquor at a place adjoining to their house. One case of 555 whisky (for sale in Chandigarh only) was seized from the place and the police were searching for Neelu, who managed to flee the scene.

Meanwhile, Pritam Singh of Mangli Tanda and Upendra Yadav of Jagdish Colony, Dhandari Khurd, were arrested in separate cases by the Meharban police and the Focal Point police, respectively. Pritam was nabbed while he was going towards his village carrying two cases of liquor (Naina whisky) in a plastic bag. The other person was held while selling liquor outside his house.

The police recovered 30 bottles of 999 whisky from his possession. Cases under sections 61/1/14 of the Excise Act have been registered against both suspects.