Cops caught running liquor trade from police station in ‘dry’ Bihar, 40 booted out

This all had been going on in a state where the state government has imposed total ban on sale and consumption of liquor.

Acting on a complaint that the cops were running the illegal liquor trade, a team of senior police officials raided the Motipur police station in Muzaffarpur district on Sunday night and seized huge stocks of unaccounted liquor stored there.

Subsequently, the team raided the official residence of the station house officer Kumar Amitabh and here too huge quantity of illegal stocks was confiscated.

According to officials, more than 300 cartons of Indian made foreign liquor were seized during the intensive raids which lasted for 22 hours. The raiding team also recovered Rs97,000 in cash and other objectionable items from the residence of the station house officer who is now absconding.

Reports said the police official in question had been storing the seized liquor at the police station and his official residence located close-by without mentioning them in the official registers and then supplying them to the liquor mafias.

“We have found that the police station in-charge was indulged in sale of liquor from the police station and his residence,” local inspector general of police Sunil Kumar told the media on Tuesday, describing the seizure of illegal liquor stocks as the largest  recovery from the house of any police officer in the state.