Sangrur Police arrest three for smuggling alcohol in stolen luxury vehicles

Parvesh Sharma
Tribune News Service
Sangrur, November 3

Sangrur Crime Investigations Agency (CIA) claimed on Tuesday that they arrested three people accused of using stolen luxury vehicles to smuggle alcohol.

Sangrur Senior Superintendent of Police Vivek Sheel Soni told the press that the three suspects, whom he identified as Yadwinder Singh alias Yadi, Kulwinder Singh and Principal Singh, were arrested from Ubhawal Road on Monday night as they were trying to smuggle in 240 bottles of alcohol from Haryana in an SUV.

He said police had impounded six vehicles--- a Skoda, a Camery, an I-20, an Optra, a Swift and an XUV--- from the suspects, and were currently conducting raids to find a BMW.

Yadi has eight FIRs against him, the officer said, and is wanted in three of the cases.

“Apart from liquor and vehicle, our team has also seized on 32 bore pistol and 4 live cartridges,” SSP Soni said.

Investigators suspect that the BMW police are now looking for may have been used in an abduction case in Ahemdgarh. The officer also said police suspect that they may have stolen the vehicles.

 “We are also looking into where the vehicles came from. During preliminary investigations, it has come to light that gang members stole luxury vehicles , changed their number plates and used them in different crimes to hoodwink cops,” he said.

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