Purnea (Bihar), Jan 14 (PTI) The police today seizedover 2672 litre of India Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) worth Rs14.69 lakh from a truck and arrested one person in Purneadistrict of Bihar which is a dry state.
Acting on a tip off, a police team searched the truckand seized 8472 bottles of IMFL near Baisi Purab Chowk on NH31 under Baisi police station, Superintendent of PoliceNishant Kumar Tiwary said.
The police team also arrested the liquor smuggler, aresident of Muzaffarpur in the state.
Stating that this is one of the biggest hauls ofliquor seizure in the district, the SP said the consignmentwas being transported to Muzaffarpur from West Bengal'sDalkola.
The Nitish Kumar government enacted an anti-liquor lawin 2016 banning manufacture, bottling, distribution,transportation, accumulation, possession, purchase, sale orconsumption of liquor in Bihar. PTI CORR ARNN.
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