More than 450 bottles of illicit liquor recovered

BAREILLY: In a major haul, police recovered 456 bottles of liquor, worth more than Rs 4 lakh, from Siddharthanagar district on Saturday night. Police recovered the liquor during intensive checking drive in the backdrop of model code of conduct.
The first seizure was made on Saturday night when police got a tip off that a resident was operating out of his residence in Siddharthnagar and selling illicit liquor.When the police raided, it recovered more than 450 bottles of Haryana made whiskey and arrested the accused, Tushar Saxena. Five other aides - Rishi Kapoor, Chintu Chaddha, Sunil, Ravi and Rinku, were also arrested.
Top officials claimed that the influx of illicit liquor from neighbouring state has exponentially multiplied ahead of the upcoming elections. Speaking to TOI, superintendent of police (city) Sameer Saurabh said, “Several such networks are active in the area but we are strictly monitoring all the activities.”
In another haul, 200 litres of illicit local liquor was recovered from nine containers in Bhojipura’s Brijlok colony and one person was arrested.