Liquor consignment of 363 bottles seized, two arrested in Jamshedpur

Jamshedpur, April 17: Tightening noose against liquor traders during the lockdown, a liquor consignment consisting of 363 bottles of Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) was seized on Burmamines-Station Road during a checking under Burmamines police station area late.

After seizing the liquor consignment, the police have arrested two persons, Mannu Yadav and Ramkumar Yadav, driver and cleaner of an auto-rickshaw.

A third person, Ajay Birua who was dealer of the liquor consignment, however, managed to escape as the police stopped the auto-rickshaw in which the liquor bottles were being carried.

Revealing about the breakthrough, OC, Burmamines police station, Vinodanand Singh said that the liquor consignment was being carried from Dipu Bustee in Burmamines and was taken to an undisclosed destination in the city for sale.

“As per the initial probe we assume that the liquor seized from an autorickhsaw were duplicate.  As the liquor dealer who was also sitting in the same vehicle and managed to escape, we could not find out where the consignment was being carried to.  But we have already known the place from where the consignment was being brought and we have begun a probe into the case,” said Singh

The OC said the auto-rickshaw which has also been seized was meant for carrying food-grains from Parsudih-based Krishi Utpad Samity’s godown to different places in the city.

Though sale of liquor has completely stopped since the lockdown came into effect on March 25, liquor bottles are finding their ways to the boozers clandestinely across  steel city. Various popular brands of the Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) is being sold at a premium. A popular brand of liquor, MRP of which is Rs 900, is being sold at a price ranging between Rs 1,200 and  Rs 1,600 a bottle.  But the liquor bottles are changing hands to the ultimate users only through ‘reliable’ people.