A police station in-charge died after allegedly being run over by a truck suspected of transporting illicit liquor during an interception operation in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas district late Sunday night, police said. The incident comes amid an intensified crackdown on the illicit liquor trade following a series of suspected hooch deaths in the state.

Dilip Puri, the Khategaon police station in-charge, was killed on the Harda-Nemawar highway after the truck’s rear wheel ran over him. According to police, the driver allegedly attempted to flee when Puri and his team tried to intercept the vehicle. Puri, a 2007-batch Sub-Inspector, was leading a team that had been tracking the truck following intelligence inputs that it was transporting illicit liquor from Harda to Gujarat via Indore.

Police said the driver had been arrested and the truck seized. The vehicle was allegedly found carrying liquor.…