SURAT: Police seized liquor price Rs 8.46 lakh from a bus carrying 45 folks, who had gone to Mahuva on a pilgrimage.
Puna police stated the bus was completely checked together with the bags of all passengers at Niyol test put up late on Sunday night time. “The group had gone for a pilgrimage to Mahuva and we obtained data that many individuals had gone to Daman on the return journey. We stored a watch on the test put up as we had particular details about the bus registration quantity,” a senior official stated.
Police discovered 265 bottles of liquor hidden within the baggage and booked the bus driver Bharat Solanki, a resident of Amroli space of Surat and cleaner Bablu Kushwah.
The groups first checked Solanki’s baggage and located a liquor bottle from the bag of Kushwah. Suspecting that there might be extra liquor, baggage of all passengers have been checked and most of them have been carrying liquor bottles. Some female and male passengers have been additionally discovered drunk.
All have been booked beneath varied sections of the Prohibition Act.