Uttarakhand Crime news November 2010

95 bottles of liquor seized

On Nov. 1, Police seized 95 bottles of liquour from an Uttarakhand transport bus and booked the driver and the conductor under the Excise Act. The bottles of XXX Rum, packed in two bags, were being smuggled to Himachal Pradesh, police said. The seizure was effected when police stopped the bus for routine checking at Paonta. The bags containing the bottles were kept under the seats close to back door of the bus which was on its way from Chandigarh to Haridwar, police said. The driver and the conductor were booked under the Excise Act.

Two held for possessing illegal drugs

Two persons were arrested under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act here and 2200 drug capsules recovered from them, police said today. Gurprit Singh and Sunil Kumar, residents of Sevalankala area, were arrested when the police intercepted their car at Asharori police check-post last evening for routine search and recovered 2200 capsules of drugs from their possession. Investigations revealed that the accused bought the capsules from nearby Saharanpur town in Uttar Pradesh and sold it to college and school students, they said. Further investigations are on to find whether they are involved in a drug-peddling racket, they added.