Liquor worth Rs 1.5 cr seized, 2 nabbed

Foreign and rare varieties were among liquor worth Rs 1.5 crore seized during checking at Kotban on National Highway-2 here and two persons were arrested in this connection, police said today.
Acting on a tip off by an informer, police conducted checking of vehicles at Kotban last evening, where two canters, carrying the liquor in 3,500 boxes, were intercepted and the drivers were arrested, police said.
Mukhtar Singh, hailing from Haryana and Sukhadeo alias Bittoo have disclosed during questioning that the liquor was being smuggled from Haryana to Gujarat, they said.