Railway employees held with liquor in Bihar

Two railway employees were arrested from a Patna-bound train near here today for trying to smuggle liquor to dry Bihar, police said.

The train was travelling to Patna from Gujarat, the police said.

Acting on a tip-off, the Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel raided the train's locomotive at Danapur, about 15 km from Patna, and arrested the loco pilot and his assistant after the GRP found liquor in the locomotive's cabin, they said.

The liquor was being carried in tetrapacks and the GRP recovered five bags full of such tetrapacks from their possession, a GRP officer said.

"We had received information that liquor was being brought by the Azimabad Express coming from Ahmedabad. We conducted a raid and found the five bags full of liquor hidden inside the engine's cabin," the Station House Officer (SHO) of Danapur GRP police station, Abhay Kant Chandra, said.

The SHO said that the bags contained close to 300 tetrapacks containing liquor and "the loco pilot along with assistant loco pilot were arrested".

"The two are being interrogated for further details such as from where they had brought the consignment and where they intended to deliver the same," Chandra said.

Sale and consumption of liquor was completely banned in Bihar by the Nitish Kumar government two years ago.