Railway pointsman arrested after police recover 2 liquor stashes in Gujarat’s Vadodara Railway yard

Soni said, “He was picked up from Navayard… He was arrested first in the September 3 case of the second stash of alcohol retrieved from an overhead water tank in the railway premises. The court rejected our remand application but we have re-arrested him Tuesday in the first case of the stash of IMFL worth Rs 38.02 lakh recovered from a MEMU Loco Shed. He will be produced again in the court on Wednesday for remand in order to undertake a deeper probe… We will ascertain how long he was involved in the crime.”

Shaikh was arrested by a team of officers, who tracked him down using human and technical intelligence, in the case lodged by the Vadodara Railway police on September 3.

The GRP had allegedly recovered a total of 2304 beer cans worth Rs 5.06 lakh, with a total of 1152 litres of beer from the basement area of the overhead water tank. The stash was allegedly discovered during an inspection carried out in the premises, just days after the GRP said they recovered a total of 9143 bottles of IMFL worth Rs 38.09 lakh, totalling to 2112 litres of alcohol from the Memu car shed in the vicinity on August 30.

According to officials of the Western Railways, a team of the Engineering department, which accompanied the GRP that was undertaking the drive, saw the gate of the water tank had a “private lock”.

According to the police, Shaikh has an alleged history of crime, and was previously arrested in a case of murder in 2018 by the Vadodara Railway Police as well as in various cases of prohibition and assault by different police stations in Vadodara.

The Western Railways confirmed to The Indian Express that Shaikh was appointed as a pointsman with a MEMU Carshed. Shaikh was suspended from his position following the two cases.

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