Smuggling Ring Dismantled: Massive Liquor Seizure on Mumbai-Agra Highway

Police seized Indian made foreign liquor worth Rs 20.25 lakh on the Mumbai-Agra highway in Nashik district. Acting on a tip-off, they intercepted a truck carrying 200 boxes of liquor hidden in plastic drums. Lalit Hariram Soni was arrested under relevant legal provisions.

In a significant breakthrough, local authorities successfully thwarted a smuggling attempt involving Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) valued at Rs 20.25 lakh on the Mumbai-Agra highway in Nashik district.

Acting on intelligence received about illicit transportation of liquor from the union territory of Diu-Daman to Dhule, police intercepted a suspicious truck on January 21 in Niphad taluka, revealing a stash of 200 boxes of liquor cleverly concealed in plastic drums.

The operation culminated in the arrest of Lalit Hariram Soni, a Rajasthan resident who was accompanying the contraband. Legal action has been initiated under the Maharashtra Prohibition Act of 1949 and provisions of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS).