Police seizes liquor worth Rs 24.69 lakh in Bihar
(Eds: Updating with liquor seizure in Muzaffarpur)Purnea/Muzaffarpur, Jan 14 (PTI) Police today seizedhuge quantity of liquor worth Rs 24.69 lakh and arrested threepersons from two districts of Bihar, which is a dry statesince April 2016.
Police seized 8472 bottles of India Made ForeignLiquor (IMFL) worth Rs 14.69 lakh and arrested one person fromPurnea district.
Acting on a tip off, a police team led by Baisistation house officer (SHO) searched a truck near Baisi purabchowk in Purnea district and seized 2672 litres of liquor from8472 bottles of IMFL, Superintendent of Police, Nishant KumarTiwary said.
The police team arrested a liquor smuggler identifiedas Deep Narayan Yadav, a resident of Muzaffarpur, the SP said.
Stating that this is one of the biggest hauls ofliquor seizure in the district, the SP said the liquor wasbeing transported to Muzaffarpur from West Bengal's Dalkola.
In an another case of liquor seizure, a police teamseized 95 cartons of foreign liquor worth Rs 10 lakh froma truck in Muzaffarpur district.
Acting on a tip off, a police team seized 95 cartonsof foreign liquor worth Rs 10 lakh from a truck which wassearched at a place under Ahiyapur police station ofMuzaffarpur district on Muzaffarpur-Darbhanga main road,Superintendent of Police Vivek Kumar said adding that thecartons were hidden under the stock of poultry feed.
The truck driver and the cleaner have been arrested,that SP said.
The Nitish Kumar government had in 2016 enacted astringent anti-liquor law banning manufacture, bottling,distribution, transportation, accumulation, possession,purchase, sale or consumption of liquor in Bihar. PTI CORR ARRG.
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