Liquor mafia attack: 2 policemen injured, vehicle damaged in Bihar
AURANGABAD, Jan. 12 -- Two policemen were critically injured and their official vehicle was badly damaged after liquor mafia goons attacked on them at Nathuni Bigha village under Aurangabad Mufassil police station area on Saturday night.
On a tip of regarding one Surendra Ram selling liquor in his house at the village, a police team led by sub-inspector Abhishek Kumar raided the place. They asked Surendra Ram to open his door which he had closed after seeing the police.
The door was opened after police warned to break open it but eight to nine inebriated men came out from the house with Surendra Ram and attacked police team with lathis. They also started shouting thieves, thieves and other mafia goons also arrived and started heavy stone pelting on police team, police said.
Police constable Ajit Anand and home-guard jawan Pramod Kumar Singh sustained critical head injuries and police started fleeing to save their lives. Their official vehicle was also badly damaged in the attack.
Station house officer inspector Ashok Kumar said that a case for offences like murderous attack, infringement to on-duty government officer, illegal sale of liquor has been registered including under sections 109 and 353 of Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita and secion 37 of Prohibition Act against 10 named and 15 unidentified accused.
Fourteen accused including main accused Surendra Ram was arrested and raids were on to arrest others, he added.
A Bihar prohibition department team has seized a huge consignment of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) at Integrated check Post on NH 19 (GT Road) near Mohania on Saturday night.
At least 751 cartons carrying 6,700 litres of Punjab manufactured IMFL, was concealed in the Nagaland registration number 12-wheeler truck, driven by a Rajasthan driver. The value of the seized liquor was worth rupees one crore in black market in Bihar, prohibition superintendent, Kaimur, Gautam Kumar said.
The arrested driver, identified as Ganga Ram, a resident of Barda village in Dungarpur district of Rajasthan informed the officials that he was not the actual driver of the truck but was hired on Rs 20,000 only to cross the Bihar border. The actual driver was to take charge of the truck after it was safely entered in Bihar, Kumar said.
The truck and mobile phone of the driver had been seized. Prohibition officials were interrogating him and efforts were on to trace the source and destination of the consignment and the persons involved, as it could be part of a well-organized gang involved in illegal smuggling of liquor in Bihar. Further arrests were likely, he said....
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