India, March 31 -- Delhi Police's Special Staff, South District, busted an illicit liquor smuggling racket with an unusual twist: the contraband was not being moved in a truck or an auto. It was loaded onto two camels and walked through forest routes into the Capital in the dead of night.

One accused, Vinod Bhadana, 48, a resident of Village Anandpur in Faridabad, Haryana, was arrested in the early hours of Sunday from the Sangam Vihar Forest area. Police recovered 39 cartons of illicit liquor, totalling 1,938 quarters, along with the two camels and equipment used to carry the load.

The logic behind Bhadana's method was straightforward and, in its own way, audacious. Intensified checking on roads connecting Delhi and Faridabad under Ope...