Excise police seized an oil tanker and 200 liquor bins from Sakri Saraiya, Bihar.
New Delhi:
An oil tanker was discovered carrying liquor in Bihar, officers mentioned on Wednesday. About 200 beer crates had been discovered within the Hindustan petroleum tanker and dropped at the excise police station. The Nagaland-registered tanker was seized from Muzaffarpur whereas the smugglers fled.
Officers mentioned the excise division had acquired a tip concerning the liquor consignment, after which they shaped a crew to arrest the smugglers. The officers arrange a street blockade, seeing which the smugglers turned the tanker in direction of a nationwide freeway.
“After being chased, the driving force and the liquor dealer left the tanker on the nationwide freeway and fled,” mentioned Vijay Shekhar Dubey, Assistant Excise Commissioner.
The seized liquor was made in Arunachal Pradesh. The native dealer who had smuggled within the liquor is being recognized and raids are on to arrest him, the official mentioned, including {that a} case has been registered towards him.
The sale of liquor is banned in Bihar, attributable to which individuals resort to progressive methods to supply alcohol. Smugglers usually provide you with new methods to move liquor – typically in ambulances and vehicles. There have been situations the place smugglers have constructed compartments inside petrol tanks to retailer liquor bottles.