A team of Mohali District Administration, comprising Kharar Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Himanshu Jain, AIG (Excise) GS Dhanoa, and the police, on late Wednesday night caught a history sheeter liquor smuggler and nabbed more than 50,000 litres of illicit liquor.
“A team, on specific information at around 1 am, swung into action and chased the liquor smugglers who were escorting the tanker carrying illegal alcohol. The owner of the premises, who was moving in black Fortuner car doing multiple rounds at the site, was also nabbed,” said Mohali Deputy Commissioner Girish Dayalan, sharing the details.
Dayalan said that the occupants of Black Fortuner car threatened the team while chasing them but the members of the raiding party showed exemplary courage and caught red handed two tankers and the vehicle escorting them.
The main accused, his associate and two drivers were arrested and the apparatus used for stealing the alcohol along with vehicles were seized and handed over to Zirakpur police for registration of FIR and further investigations.
The culprit arrested was found to be an offender wanted by the police in various cases.
