Police have seized the beer bottles as ‘unclaimed goods’.

INDORE: A pond in Dewas district started coughing up hundreds of beer bottles on Monday, setting a frenzy among villages to grab them. Apparently, a trucker carrying the illicit liquor dumped the goods in the pond during night to evade arrest.

Police rushed to the spot and salvaged the remaining liquor bottles, officially seizing them and launching a probe against unknown persons for throwing the bottles in the pond.

The matter came to fore in the morning when people passing by a pond, dug in a private land in village Jamasidh, saw cartons floating on the surface, Udai Nagar police station in-charge Kailash Solanki told TOI.

Some of them ventured into the water and saw the beer bottles gleaming from the pond’s bottom. Soon after it was established that the bottles were of beer, divers rushed in and fished some of them out.

The word spread around the village and people gathered in numbers to grab their share of free beer found in the pond.

As information about the frenzy reached the police, Solanki and a team of policemen rushed to the spot and took the liquor into custody.

"The pond has a radius of around 200 meters and is 20 ft deep. We sought help from trained swimmers to fish out the bottles. It seems to be a truckload," the inspector said.

By evening, the bottles were still being fished out. Police found five pair of clothes at the spot.

Investigators claimed that the beer was branded and Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL). “The markings on the beer bottles indicate that it was marked for Morena district. We are trying to trace the source,” Solanki said.

Police have seized the beer bottles as ‘unclaimed goods’. The police station in-charge claimed that if any foul play surfaces, cases under relevant sections will be registered.

