AHMEDABAD: The Prevention of Crime Branch (PCB) has seized a large consignment of foreign liquor worth more than Rs 1.08 crore in a targeted enforcement action and arrested the driver involved in Gujarat's Ahmedabad, officials said on Tuesday.
The operation took place near the Sutar Factory Bridge area in the Naroda area of the city late on Monday night.
According to police, the PCB team had set up surveillance based on intelligence that a container was travelling from Haryana via Rajasthan towards Ahmedabad and was expected to pass through the Naroda Ring Road stretch close to the bridge.
When the container arrived, officers stopped it for inspection. The driver, identified as Mangiram Jat, a resident of Sadpura village in Rajasthan, was asked to produce documentation for the container’s cargo.
He presented a document claiming the load consisted of bicycles.
Officers, however, acting on suspicion that the document was false, opened the container and found it packed with cartons of foreign liquor.