Three liquor smugglers held, red-beacon car seized (Lead)

New Delhi June 24 (IANS) VVIPs and VIPs in India may have removed red beacons from their official vehicles but three criminals used the once-coveted status symbol to facilitate their criminal activities: They used a red beacon atop their car to smuggle countrymade liquor. However they were arrested on Saturday police said.

Police said the three liquor smugglers were arrested in the early hours of Saturday from north-east Delhi and 4 272 nips of countrymade liquor an Innova SUV with a red beacon and a Swift car bearing temporary registration number seized from them.

Deputy Commissioner of Police A.K. Singla said Rahul Chauhan 24 Sanjay Sharma 30 and Sadiq Ali 22 were intercepted while travelling in the two vehicles in the Nand Nagri area here around 4 a.m. following a tip-off.

They told police that they got the consignments of liquor from Haryana and sold it to bootleggers in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.

--IANS
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