Daaru, not dardi’: In dry Gujarat, ambulance is caught ferrying booze, not patients
On September 11, the Gujarat Police apprehended an ambulance on the Bhavnagar-Rajkot highway, which was allegedly carrying illegal liquor instead of patients. The Amreli police received a tip-off about a vehicle transporting illegal Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) from Madhya Pradesh to Gujarat. The police set up a watch on the highway, and they spotted the ambulance on Friday evening.
Upon investigation, they found 672 flasks of McDowell's No. 1 Original Reserve Whisky and 1,296 flasks of Blender's Pride Reserve Whisky inside a hidden medical cabinet, valued at Rs 1.35 lakh and Rs 2.21 lakh respectively. The driver, identified as 34-year-old Sagar alias Lalo Kamlesh Gohel from Gondal, was arrested for bootlegging under the Prohibition Act.
This was Gohel's second smuggling attempt from Madhya Pradesh to Gujarat. The Gujarat Prohibition Act, 1949, governs the manufacturing, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol within the state, with penalties of up to ten years imprisonment and a fine of five lakh rupees for offenders.
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