3 nabbed with liquor

Bhagalpur: The Bhagalpur police along with excise department officials arrested three persons, including a college student and a bank employee, from different places during the past 24 hours and seized huge quantity of liquor from them.
They would be charged under the new Bihar Excise (Amendment) Act, 2016, that has provision for punishment ranging from 10-year jail to life imprisonment besides penalty of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 10 lakh, police said.
Sources said 20 IMFL bottles were recovered from the house of Chandrashekhar Yadav, a resident of Kolakhurd village under Jagdishpur police station area, during a joint raid conducted by police and excise department officials. The liquor bottles were buried in land and covered with bundles of straw. Yadav had bought a huge quantity of liquor before the alcohol ban came into force in the state, for selling them at a big premium later.
In another incident, Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested college student Manoj Kumar Soren from the Jainagar-Howrah (Dhulian) Express train at Pirpainty station during a search operation for carrying IMFL. Soren is a resident of Godda in Jharkhand and student of a prestigious college in Bhagalpur.
Sanjay Kumar Das, a class IV employee in Vananchal Gramin Bank and resident of Laluchak locality in Bhagalpur, was also arrested from the same train during the raid. IMFL bottles were also seized from his possession, said sources, adding another person escaped from the train leaving behind eight bottles of different brands of IMFL.
Sources said the GRP had earlier received information that train passengers were being used as conduit to supply liquor to consignees at Bhagalpur district.
Bhagalpur excise superintendent Vijay Shekhar Dubey said action would be taken against those found flouting the prohibition law. Bhagalpur SSP Manoj Kumar said the prohibition law was strictly being enforced in the district.