This story is from October 1, 2020

Ballia, Chandauli cops seize huge consignments of liquor, arrest smugglers

Ballia, Chandauli cops seize huge consignments of liquor, arrest smugglers
Varanasi: Despite efforts to tighten noose around liquor mafia, the menace of liquor smugglers continues in the districts of Varanasi zone. On Wednesday, cops of Ballia and Chandauli—both Bihar bordering districts—caught two consignments of liquor and arrested the smugglers.
Ballia SP Devendra Nath said that on a tip-off about hooch manufacturing, Sahatwar cops raided a marriage hall Chandpur in and caught three men red-handed while they were refilling the hooch in empty bottles of branded liquor.
The police succeeded in nabbing all of them.
The arrested hooch makers were identified as Surendra Rao of Kushinagar, Dharmedra Kumar and Arunjay of Aurangabad district in Bihar. They confessed that they were involved in making hooch.
Nath said that 403 bottles packed in 15 boxes were recovered. Empty bottles, caps and other packaging material were also recovered from their possession. They revealed that they smuggled liquor to Bihar, said the SP.
In Chandauli, Mughalsarai cops caught a liquor-laden truck near Chakia crossing after chasing it though several kilometres. Chandauli SP Hemant Kutiyal said that when the cops checked the truck, 2,097 bottles of branded liquor packed in 233 boxes were recovered. Driver Jai Bhagwan Vishwakarma and cleaner Ravi alias Kala of Haryana were arrested. The duo admitted that they were involved in smuggling liquor to Bihar since a long time, said Kutiyal.

Jaunpur cops also managed to nab a liquor smuggler with a huge consignment of liquor. Jaunpur SP Rajkaran Nayyar said that a joint team of police led by SO Jalalpur Om Narain and SO Nevadhia SK Singh cordoned off Nevada Nevadhia- Kusia road and started checking vehicles at night. They noticed that four trucks were trying to dodge them. As the police moved towards those trucks, drivers, cleaners and other persons started jumping from the vehicles to flee.
The cops succeeded in arresting one Mohd Aziz of Madhya Pradesh. When the trucks were checked, 200 boxes full of liquor were recovered from three trucks each, and 290 boxes of liquor bottles were seized from the fourth truck, said Nayyar, adding, estimated cost of recovered liquor was over Rs 1.50 crore. Aziz divulged that the liquor was being taken to Bihar.
Earlier, on September 27 Hallia cops in Mirzapur unearthed a hooch manufacturing unit in Babura Khurd area near Rateha market. Cops recovered 5000 litres of spirit, 400 litres of hooch and manufacturing and packaging materials in huge quantity.
On the same day, Chandauli cops nabbed three cattle smugglers from Saiyyedraja area and recovered 16 cattle from their truck.
Besides, Chandauli administration and police also seized properties worth Rs 3.84 crore of a liquor smuggler Raju Sing under Gangster Act on Tuesday.
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