Noida Dec 21 PTI The Uttar Pradesh Police on Tuesday seized in Greater Noida whisky worth over Rs 5 lakh that was being illegally transported in a passenger bus from Haryana to Bihar and arrested one person officials saidThe double-decker bus was intercepted around 5 am on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway under the Dankaur police station limits they saidAssistant Commissioner of Police Greater Noida 3 Brajnandan Rai said A local police team was checking vehicles in Dankaur area when the bus was intercepted as it looked suspicious to the officials The bus driver did not have any proper documents and there were only five-six passengers inside the vehicle It was a double-decker sleeper bus but had a special compartment towards its rear portion in which the liquor was kept Rai told reportersAfter thorough checking 90 cartons of whisky 1080 bottles with a market value of Rs 540 lakh were recovered from the compartment the officer said adding the liquor was strictly for sale in Haryana but was being illegally transported to BiharACP Rai said a man involved in the trafficking was arrested He was identified as Upendra Singh a native of Aligarh who was currently residing in DelhiDuring the initial probe the accused told the police that he purchased liquor from Haryana at a low cost and sold it in Bihar at thrice the rate the officer saidAn FIR has been lodged in the case and further legal proceedings have been initiated the police said PTI KIS DIV DIV

Lucknow Sep 21 PTI The Uttar Pradesh Police has detained Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Prarishad president Mahant Narendra Giris disciple Anand Giri from Haridwar said an official on Tuesday a day after the seer was found dead Anand Giri was detained on Monday night after a case for abetting suicide was lodged against him ADG Law and Order Prashant Kumar said Mahant Narendra Giri the president of the largest organisation of seers in India was found dead on Monday at Baghambari Muth in Allahabad A purported suicide note of seven-eight pages was also found in which the seer had written that he was mentally disturbed and was ending his life Kumar said in the suicide note names of three people were mentioned and on the basis of the FIR Anand Giri was detained He is being brought to Allahabad for further probe he said adding that evidence in the case is being collected An unbiased and transparent probe into the matter is on and the state police is capable of handling the case the officer said About the veracity of the suicide note Kumar said forensic experts are looking into it PTI ABN RDK RDK