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Large scale seizure of liquor in Bihar after total ban

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liquorPatna:- Huge quantity of liquor, country made as well Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL), was seized during stepped up raids across Bihar today, hours after total ban on alochol was clamped.

The total ban on alcohol sale and consumption announced by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar yesterday has resulted in drastic decline in footfalls in hotels, club and bar and restaurants in different parts of the state.

Om Prakash Gupta, Assistant Excise Commissioner, told PTI that 17,000 litres of country made liquor were seized in Chapra in raid.

In Malsalami of Patna, police recovered 90 cartons of country liquor hidden in a bush, Station House Officer Rajendra Prasad said.

A report from Kisanganj said 150 cartons of foreign liquor, headed for neighbouring Malda district of West Bengal was seized at Faring Gola check post.

The liquor coming from Silliguri bore stamp of West Bengal but there was no signature of any official and hence the Excise officials seized the liquor.

In Nalanda, the home district of the Chief Minister, 1,115 bottles of foreign liquor was seized from a hotel in Biharsharif and its owner arrested.

The control room, set up in the state police headquarters, said that altogether 25 complaints of illegal sale, stocking and consumption of liquor was received today and concerned officials were alerted for action against them.

The Nitish Kumar government had yesterday declared Bihar a dry state with imposition of a total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol including India Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) with immediate effect.

The Bihar government had banned sale and consumption of country and spiced liquor in rural areas from April 1 this year, but had allowed sale of IMFL in towns and cities.

But, as the Chief Minister asserted, the overwhelming response of people, particularly women and children against liquor in Patna and other towns in a short span of four days, prompted the government move for a total ban on liquor.

PTI

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