Alok Mishra
Gopalganj: Thawe Government Rail Police (GRP) personnel on January 8 arrested a youth Chunmun Rai, son of Dinesh Rai of village Dharmpur under Jadopur police station, and seized Haryana made 30 bottles of IMFL of 750 ml each from his possession.
Thawe GRP SHO in-charge Arundeo Rai said that as 55008 Gorakhpur-Patliputra Passengers’ Train reached Thawe Station in Gopalganj district on Sunday, a GRP team started searching every bogie of the train. He said that 0n suspicion, the cops searched the bag of a youth and found IMFL bottles from the bag.
The in-charge SHO said that during interrogation, the arrested youth told the police that the liquor bottles were purchased from Gorakhpur by one Rajan Yadav of his village. The youth told the police that the liquor bottles were to delivered to one Kalicharan at Patna, he added.
Quoting the arrested youth, the in-charge SHO said that Chunmun was given Rs 2,500 for his work by Rajan. The youth told the police that Rajan was also in the train but escaped when the cops arrested him, the SHO said, adding that Chunmun was later sent to Sonepur under judicial custody.