Satish Aditya
Raxaul : The sleuths of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), on a tip off, on May 19, 2020, conducted raid at a hutment at Ahirawatola, Raxaul, near Indo-Nepal in East Champaran District in North Bihar, and seized 400 bottles of foreign including Nepal made liquor worth Rs 2 lakh. Priywart Sharma, Commandant, SSB, Raxaul, said no liquor smuggler could be arrested during the raid as they managed
to escape before the SSB personnel reached there.
Parasa District in Nepal is under curfew for the last two weeks while on the other side East Champaran district in Bihar is under lockdown to check spread of COVID-19. Yet, the smuggling of liquor is going on unabated in border areas. A bar was being run from a hut raided by the SSB violating prohibition enforced in Bihar in 2016.