Vadodara: A tempo loaded with liquor worth Rs 15 lakh was seized from NH4 in Sampa village.

Passing through the border of Sampa village in Karjan taluka, an illegal Eicher car was set up in an illegal Eicher car and was taken to Amreli for Rs. Foreign liquor worth more than Rs 15 lakh was seized by the Vadodara Rural LCB and a mobile phone, Eicher car and other materials were seized and a total of more than Rs 22 lakh was seized and a complaint was lodged at Karjan police station against the tempo driver. The Vadodara Rural LCB team received information during patrolling that Eicher was coming from Bharuch on NH-4 with a quantity of foreign liquor in car number GJ-26T-9916. He was going to Saurashtra via Vadodara. On the basis of this, LCB personnel were placed in the watch of the informant vehicle on the track from Mumbai to Delhi on NH4 near Sampa village. Meanwhile, when the informant vehicle arrived, it was cordoned off and stopped and when the driver was asked the name of the driver sitting alone in the eicher, he said that he was of Kantilal Savji Muchhadiya (R/o Sarpadad village, Paddhari G. Rajkot). On removing the tarpaulin tied on the back of the tempo, prima facie Eicher was found empty. After thorough checking, the police found a chowkhana at the back. When opened it, a large quantity of foreign liquor was found. On further interrogation, the driver of the car, my friend Piyush Praveen Bhalara (R/o Rajkot Kotharia Naka), told me to take this car to Amreli and give it to Bipin alias Jalaram alias Kania at Lalia in Amreli. The police seized foreign liquor worth Rs 15,05,304, a car worth Rs 7 lakh, a mobile phone worth Rs 5,000, tarpaulin and rope and seized a total quantity of Rs 22,11,504 and detained the driver.

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