Belagavi
The illegal transportation of liquor is going on quietly ahead of elections in five states. Following this, the Excise officials have succeeded in seizing a huge quantity of liquor that was being illegally transported in a lorry from Goa to Telangana using state-of-the-art technology.
Last month, the excise department officials, who busted the illegal network by conducting a cinematic raid when liquor boxes were being transported in the middle of plywood in a lorry, conducted a similar raid this time too and seized liquor hidden in a lorry carrying a fake transformer.
Acting on a tip-off, the officials raided the Hirebagewadi toll naka and intercepted a lorry, and interrogated the driver. Rs 10 lakh was hidden between two electric transformers. The excise officials seized 250 different brands of liquor from 5 cardboard boxes and arrested the accused lorry driver, Shriram Sudhakar Parde (31), a resident of Mumbai in Maharashtra.
The vehicle was controlled using state-of-the-art technology GPS equipment. The miscreants switched off the GPS to prevent the vehicle from going ahead as the excise officials conducted the raid. The team was somewhere and controlled the lorry from there. Later, the GPS was disconnected and the vehicle was seized. The liquor was being transported from Goa as telangana state is also going to polls in five state assembly elections. The accused thought that if liquor boxes were placed between the transformers, no one would suspect them.
The raid was conducted by a team led by Excise Superintendent Vijay Kumar Hiremath, under the guidance of Additional Excise Commissioner Dr. Y Manjunath, Excise Joint Commissioner Firoz Khan Killedar, Excise Deputy Commissioner M Vanajakshi
