Three persons including a retired army man have been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle 600 bottles of illicit liquor to Gujarat in a red beacon- fitted vehicle, police said today.
Kripa Shankar Sharma, 45, Praveen Dwivedi, 28, and Mahesh Singh, 34, were arrested by the crime branch from Gopi Nath Bazar in southeast Delhi's Cantt area, said Ravindra Yadav, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch).
Following a tip-off, police searched the red beacon car having fake defence series number plate and recovered 600 bottles of illicit liquor labelled with 'for CSD only' tag from the boot of the vehicle.
Sharma, the alleged kingpin who had joined army in 1991 and retired in 2012, would impersonate himself as a serving Subedar in the army while smuggling illicit liquor from Delhi to Gujarat, the officer added.
