Kumar Rajiv Nayan
Ara : Government Railway Police (GRP), Ara, seized 28 bottles of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) and arrested a liquor smuggler Mohammad Jahangir, son of Mohammad Zitan of Chitkohara under Gardanibag police station in Patna district, at Ara railway station on March 19, 2019, when he got down from the train there.
Bhojpur police also seized 17 bottles of IMFL at village Birpur under Bihia police station on March 19 and arrested a liquor smuggler while another managed to escape. SHO, Bihia police station, said that the arrested liquor smuggler was identified as Lalan Ram of village Suhia while Tuntun Gond of the same village escaped.
Two separate FIRs have been lodged with the GRP, Ara, and Bihia police station under the New Excise Act in this connection. The two arrested persons were forwarded to jail.