Gurugram, Feb. 27 -- A crime branch team intercepted a container truck and seized 556 cartons containing 5,070 litres of Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) and beer that were allegedly being smuggled beneath 250 sacks of plastic beads near the toll plaza on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway in Bilaspur on Wednesday night.

Investigators said they arrested the truck driver, Mohammad Javed, 36, hailing from Singar in Nuh and currently residing in Sasaram in Bihar's Rohtas district.

Crime branch officials said Javed was working for a Punjab-based liquor trader and was tasked with transporting the seized consignment from Punjab to Bihar, a dry state, after taking a detour via Chhattisgarh. The supplier had allegedly promised to pay h...