Three members of a gang of bootleggers have been arrested in Vadodara throughout a raid by the Gujarat Police’s State Monitoring Cell (SMC) on a container truck with Indian Made International Liquor early on Saturday.
The SMC officers of Gandhinagar confiscated liquor bottles value Rs 22 lakh, the container truck and a luxurious SUV that was used for the crime and introduced them to Harni police station in Vadodara, the police mentioned, including that eight males, together with the primary accused Zuber Shafiq Memon, who fled the spot have been declared needed.
In response to the police, they fired two rounds on the car whereas the bootleggers have been unloading cartons of alcohol bottles, allegedly meant for distribution inside the state, into smaller autos at an remoted spot on the freeway close to Darjipura.
The police mentioned that the boys allegedly attacked and pelted stones on the police personnel on their arrival on the spot, prompting police inspector RG Khant to allegedly open fireplace on the container.
Throughout the firing, the bullets cracked by the windscreen of the container truck and eight folks, together with needed bootlegger Zuber Shafiq Memon, escaped from the spot.
The inspection was held based mostly on a tipoff forward of the New Yr celebrations, the police mentioned.
The arrested have been recognized as Firoz Diwan, Altaf Hussain Diwan and Ratansinh Sodha — all residents of Vadodara whereas the prime accused Memon alongside together with his accomplices together with the driving force of the SUV, escaped.
“The truth that the SMC raided a bootleggers’ exercise within the metropolis limits is rarely taken frivolously. There shall be an inner inquiry towards officers of the Harni police station for lacking this data. So far as the case is anxious, the probe has been initiated into the sequence of occasions and what could have led the SMC Police inspector to fireplace in self-defence. We’re additionally in search of the opposite accused,” a senior official of the Vadodara police mentioned.
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