TIRUPATI: Notwithstanding the slash in liquor prices, interstate liquor smuggling continues unabated in
Chittoor
district which borders
Tamil Nadu and
Karnataka.
Chittoor district police on Wednesday arrested two persons and seized as many as 2,400 bottles of interstate liquor worth 5 lakh. The arrested have been identified as A Shoban Babu (49) and S Naresh (27).
According to Chittoor DSP N Sudhakar Reddy, Two Town CI P
Yugandhar
and his team acted on credible information and conducted raids at
Tenebanda
locality in the town in the early hours on Wednesday.
During the exercise, police spotted a group of eight men unloading liquor from Karnataka state from a vehicle and tried to surround the suspects. However, six of the eight managed to escape while police arrested two.
Police seized 2,400 interstate liquor bottles of different brands. They also seized a car, an autorickshaw and a bike.