LUCKNOW, April 19 -- The UP Special Task Force (STF) has arrested an accused carrying a Rs.50,000 reward in connection with an interstate liquor smuggling racket spanning UP, Bihar and Jharkhand. The accused, Vikas Soran, was wanted in a gang-related case registered in Azamgarh district under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, officials said.

Soran, a resident of Kothkala village under Narnaund police station in Hisar district of Haryana, was apprehended on Saturday evening near Huda Ground in the Civil Lines area of Jind district, where he had been hiding to evade arrest. He had been absconding since 2023 after a case was registered against him at Devgaon police station in Azamgarh following the sei...