The Chittoor urban police on Thursday seized liquor bottles and sachets worth ₹3.5 lakh from Karnataka at Thenebanda locality on the outskirts of Chittoor and arrested two persons.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (Law and Order) N. Sudhakar Reddy said that acting on a tip-off about the movement of the operatives involved in inter-State liquor smuggling, a special party rushed to the spot.
Seeing the police party, the accused reportedly abandoned the stocks in the bushes and tried to flee. Two of them were apprehended, while one person managed to escape.
