RAJKOT: Illicit liquor worth Rs 39.8 lakh was seized in three different raids on Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway on Tuesday night.
Police seized 4,752 liquor bottles worth Rs 15 lakh from a container truck in a raid conducted at Bhalgamda village of Limbdi taluka of Surendranagar district.
Cops arrested four accused, Sanjaysinh Rana, Arjunsinh Chudasama, truck driver Rajesh Kohli and cleaner Ranveersinh Chamar and said that the liquor was sent by a man named Jogi from Delhi.
Another stock of 1,600 bottles worth Rs 4.8 lakh was seized from Vankaner in Morbi.
The liquor bottles were hidden under plastic waste in a truck.
Truck driver Chokharam Godara told the police that the liquor was sent by a man named Sonu from Udaipur for sale in Rajkot.
Sleuths of Rajkot crime branch raided at Hirasar village on the outskirts of the city and nabbed three people identified as Khiyaram Choudhary, Pravin Gangadiya and Salim Sheikh and seized Indian Made Foreign Liquor worth Rs 19.9 lakh from the trio.
Indian-made foreign liquor worth Rs 40 lakh seized in different raids
