Liquor worth Rs 22 Lakh seized near Limbdi

RAJKOT: Acting on specific information, the

Limbdi police

seized

Indian Made Foreign Liquor

(

IMFL

) worth Rs 22.72 lakh from truck near Morvad village on the

Rajkot-Limbdi highway

on Saturday night.

As many as 5,737 liquor bottles of various brands were hidden beneath 200 bags of Plaster of Paris (

POP

) powder. The truck driver Milkhan Pathan managed to escape in the darkness but the cleaner Azad Khan Pathan, 28, was arrested. Both are natives of Uncha village of Chittorgadh in Rajashtan. The truck had a registration number of Tamil Nadu.