Overview

• Police laid a trap on June 4 near Neruskar Road in Dombivli after a tip-off and intercepted a Mahindra Bolero carrying unlicensed liquor.
• Officers recovered 18,290 bottles of spurious IMFL alongside printing machines, cartridges, packaging materials and forged batch numbers.
• Driver Srikant Bhagirath Tokde, his assistant Mandal Vakil Nivas, Ravi Santosh Tiwari and Sanjit Hazari Yadav were arrested and remanded to police custody until June 9.
• Authorities have charged the four under sections 318(4), 336(2), 336(3) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and relevant provisions of the Maharashtra Prohibition Act.
• This operation follows recent raids in May and reflects an intensified crackdown on liquor smuggling networks operating in Maharashtra.