In a ‘dry state’ of Gujarat where duty-free alcohol is gold for the peddler, the police nabbed two and confiscated 137 alcohol bottles from parked two wheelers.

The PCB arrested Tushar Patel of Ranip and Dinesh Bamaniya of Chandlodiya for selling illegal duty-free alcohol.

The Prevention of Crime Branch (PCB) Police Inspector MC Chaudhary and his staff received a specific tip on the evening of May 18 about liquor deliveries from Ranip’s Panchrahi Apartment.

Acting on the tip, the police raided the apartment and found 137 bottles of liquor hidden in a two-wheeler parked in the parking space of the apartment. According to reports, most of the bottles were of foreign liquor.

The accused revealed during the interrogation that Patel used to get alcohol from Avinash Patel of Gandhinagar and sell it to his regular customers with the help of Bamaniya, who acted as a supplier.

Owing to the high demand for foreign liquor, the Patel duo created a special network where they used to get duty-free liquor from local travellers coming from abroad and sell it to customers at a higher price through Bamaniya.

The police have also found a list of customers from the accused. Further investigation is underway in this matter.

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