Police impound truck carrying beer bottles, cans in Yamunanagar

The police have impounded a truck which was reportedly carrying 1,550 boxes of bottles and cans of beer from near Sukhpura village of Yamunanagar district.

Transit slip anomaly

• The transit slip issued by the excise authorities revealed that the truck had reached Yamunanagar about 40 hours before the scheduled time
• The police are suspecting that liquor was being supplied more

  than once on one permit

As per documents, the truck was going to Dhanbad in Jharkhand from Samba in Jammu and Kashmir.

The transit slip issued by the authorities of Excise and Taxation Department, Panchkula, revealed that the truck had reached Yamunanagar about 40 hours before the scheduled time.

The transit slip is issued to transport beer/liquor to other states through Haryana during the enforcement of the model code of conduct.

According to rules, if a vehicle reaches a place before or after time mentioned in the transit pass, it is considered a crime.

A team of police, headed by Kewal Singh, SHO, Sadar police station, Yamunanagar, has been carrying out checking of vehicles on the Yamunanagar-Jagadhri bypass as part of surveillance for the upcoming Assembly elections. The police team caught a truck near Sukhpura/Aurangabad villages at noon on September 1.

The truck was loaded with beer boxes, which were counted in the presence of Excise Inspector Mohan Singh. As many as 1,250 boxes (650 ml) of bottles and 300 boxes of cans (500 ml) were found in the truck.

According to the excise policy, the time of reaching of a liquor-loaded vehicle in a district or a state is mentioned on a transit slip issued by the Excise Department. But, the investigation conducted by the police revealed that this truck had reached Yamunanagar 40 hours before the scheduled time.

Police suspect that this could be a case of supplying liquor more than one time on one transit slip/permit.

As per available information, the said consignment of this beer was loaded from a brewery in Jammu and Kashmir and it was to be unloaded in the depot of the said breweries situated in Jharkhand.

SHO Kewal Singh said a case had been registered under Sections 61 (1)-4-2020 Excise Act (Haryana Amendment Bill 2020) on September 1.

He said the driver of the truck had been interrogated and he was let go for now.

He added that the truck had been impounded.

He further said that the consignee and consignor had been called for interrogation.

“We are investigating the case to find out whether the transit pass was misused,” he said.