Jamshedpur Police seize consignment of IMFL bottles

Jamshedpur, March 29: Police on Sunday seized a consignment of� IMFL bottles after nabbing an auto-rickshaw and arresting the driver at Dimna Chowk under Ulidih police station� area in the wee hours of Sunday. The drive was carried in view of coronavirus.
The seized liquor consignment was being carried from Pardih to an undisclosed destination in Mango.

The seizure of liquor was made while a police team was carrying out checking vehicles on the NH-33 near the Dimna Chowk.
OC, Ulidih police station, Dhananjay Baitha said that the arrested auto-rickshaw driver, identified as Lalta Prasad, was not aware as to where the liquor consignment was being carried from and what was its destination.  He said they could not know the source from where the liquor consignment was being brought.

“We are investigating the seized materials. But it is certain that the liquor consignment was brought from a place in Pardih and was being carried to Mango.  There were two scooter-borne men who were escorting the auto-rickshaw from Pardih, but they managed to escape arrest,” said the OC.

Baitha said the two scooter-borne men had asked the auto-rickshaw driver by coming to his house at Daiguttu in Mango for carrying some goods from Pardih.

“We found that after Prasad drove upto Pardih Chowk, one of the scooter riders who were coming behind asked the auto driver to get down from his vehicle and asked him to stay.� Subsquently, the two scooter riders took to a road deep inside Pardih locality and returned back having loaded the consignment of liquor,” the OC, quoted the auto-driver as saying.