Prasagraj: Police remain bambuzled by smuggling Haryana liquor that is uncontrolled through borders between countries and innovative tactics adopted by Bootleggers to avoid the law.
The convulsions of illegal liquor worth Rs 10 Lakh on Saturday from the metal room which were hammered in the truck channel had surprised the police, which captured the consignment at the Prayagraj-Kaushambi border.
Bootleggers also save bottle of liquor in the mammoth fruit crate by tapping the wholesale fruit transportation business and this escaped because the police failed to open each chest at the checkpoint.
Speaking with Toi, additional SP (Kaushambi) faint Bahadur said, “Acting on certain tip-off, the police intercepted the truck carrying oranges near the Kokhraj highway and took Haryana’s liquor worth Rs 10 Lakh.” However, the driver and truck cleaner, stretched out of the police net.
The consignment was taken from inside the metal space packed with oranges in the middle of the truck chassis.
The persistence of hooked from Haryana Bootleggers despite daily seizures and raids is another causative cause.
Low prices from the top-class brands and differential tax structures have triggered smuggling liquor from Haryana to East and Bihar, police said.
Despite patrolling all the time, there was no traffic jam at Bootleging, police said.
A special senior assignment official told TII that illegal liquor worth more than RS 5 Crore had been confiscated for the past two years and the route to smuggle Pratapgarh and the district side by side, where the liquor mafia had dug heels.
Some repaired spirit drums were confiscated in the past recently.
Senior police, however, showed that the distillation and drug smuggling had been reduced in eastern districts after police tightened snare around the liquor mafia in Pratapgarh and attach their nature.
“We constantly coordinate with the police of other countries and districts, exchanging information and maintaining vigilance on the border, said a senior police officer.