Three persons were arrested on the charge of smuggling Indian-Made Foreign Liquor bottles made in Pudhucherry during a raid by a Prohibition Enforcement Wing team on Palani-Dharapuram Road here on Wednesday. A total of 1,008 bottles of liquor were seized from them.
The arrested were – R. Murugesan (51), his wife M. Kaliammal (41) and car driver I. Thanga Kumar (28) – all of Rajapalayam in Virudhunagar district.
The police said that the gang was trying to smuggle the liquor to Palani from Pondicherry through Oddanchatram.