Over 7,000 bottles of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) worth over Rs 22.86 lakh have been seized from this district, police said today.
The recovery has been made from different locations in East Colony Jamalpur and Shakarpur village of the district, Superintendent of Police Munger Ashish Bharti said.
The bottles were suspected to belong to a liquor trader who had large number of outlets in the district, he said.
The SP said on specific information that more liquor bottles might have been hidden by the "influential" trader in four wells at separate places, the police team was conducting search in these wells.
This is probably one of the biggest haul of liquor in the wake of complete ban on alcohol announced by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Bihar on April 5.
Giving details of search, the SP said 1400 bottles of foreign brand were recovered from the premises of a house in East Colony locality in Jamalpur last night.
In raids today, 488 cartons (one carton containing 12 bottles) and 64 cartons were seized from two houses in Shakarpur village, the SP said.
The SP said the total value of the liquor seized was over Rs 22.86 lakh.
