1,100 cartons of illegal liquor seized in Latehar

Times News NetworkDaltonganj: Latehar district police have busted a new smuggling model in which illicit liquor was concealed under animal feed consignments and transported in bulk, it said on Saturday.Acting on a tip-off, SP Kumar Gaurav directed SDPO Sandip Kumar Gupta and his team to intercept the consignment on NH-39 near Chandwa. Police stopped two luxury cars and a 12-wheeler truck reportedly moving from Ranchi to Bihar.While the cars had liquor bottles in their dicky, the truck was loaded with around 200 plastic bags labelled as L-Lysine sulphate 70% animal feed. On closer inspection, the bags contained paddy husk, used as cattle feed, while over 1,100 cartons of English liquor were hidden behind them, police stated.They added that the intercepted vehicles bore Jharkhand, Odisha and Rajasthan registration numbers, all of which are under verification.Five youths aged 20-29 have were arrested and remanded to judicial custody on May 29. Two others, including the truck driver, fled.Photo TOIBoxes of illicit English wine underneath the L Lysine sulphate 70 percentanimal feed stocking in a truck seized in Latehar district