In dry Bihar, villagers like to loot unlawful liquor bottles and chickens, useless or alive, mendacity scattered on street after the autos carrying them met with an accident and overturned. Villagers in Banka district looted 12 quintals of hen on March 20 after the van carrying them had a head-on collision with a Sports Utility Vehicle and overturned.
This will not be the primary such incident and there have been related scenes earlier, the place in folks had been fleeing with liquor bottles after the autos transporting them illegally bought overturned, in numerous components of the dry State.
In April 2016, Bihar was declared a dry State below new stringent provisions of State Prohibition and Excise Act. However, since then, greater than 1.86 crore litres of illicit liquor, each IMFL (Indian Made Foreign Liquor) and desi (nation made), have been seized within the State and a complete of three,61,077 instances have been registered with whole arrests of 5,17,419 folks till December 2022 for violation of liquor legal guidelines within the State.
A pick-up van carrying a complete 24 quintals of hen met a head-on collision with an SUV close to terah mile chowk (thoroughfare) below Rajaun Police station in Banka district and overturned on Monday morning. The chickens got here out cackling on the street, although many bought trapped below the car and died. The driver of the van fled from the spot out of concern. As quickly because the villagers bought to know in regards to the chickens cackling and roaming free on the street, they rushed to the spot and, later, had been seen fleeing with two-three chickens of their palms. Some of them even had pressed one hen tightly below their armpit. In half-an-hour, all of the residing chickens had vanished from the spot after which some villagers had been seen attempting onerous to tug out even these useless and had been bought entangled below the overturned van.
Later, native police reached the spot and chased away all of the villagers who had been on the chicken-looting spree, from an overturned car which had precipitated site visitors jam on the street for greater than an hour. “We’ve seized both the vehicles and took them to the police station. Further investigation is on”, stated Manoj Kumar Singh, police officer at Rajaun police station.
Earlier, in December 2021, a tricky competitors was seen amongst village males, ladies and even youngsters to remove unlawful liquor bottles scattered on the street after they fell out from bikes of liquor smugglers at Semra Mor in Gopalganj district. In the video of the incident which had went viral on social media, even a policeman was seen with a liquor bottle in his pocket at the moment. Later, a liquor smuggler recognized as Ram Kumar Ram of Nirjalahan village was arrested by the police.
In the same incident in November 2019, a automotive bearing West Bengal registration quantity had met with an accident in a bid to save lots of a goat loitering on the street close to Forbesganj in Araria district and bought overturned and unlawful liquor bottles tumbled out of the automotive. The villagers had been seen pushing and shoving one another to loot the illicit liquor bottles. The males, ladies and kids had been seen taking out liquor bottles of their hand and operating out from the spot, flashing a wry smile on their faces.
“In dry Bihar, whenever a vehicle overturns, especially in border areas, fair chances are that illegal liquor bottles tumble out from them. The liquor smuggling has become a most profiting business in Bihar today. And in such a situation, the spirited villagers get a chance to spring and get liquor bottles free of charge to quench their thirst”, mocked a retired senior police officer in Patna.
Since prohibition is effected in Bihar in April 2016, a number of autos engaged in unlawful commerce of liquor from neighbouring States have gotten overturned, for some purpose or different, in Bihar and villagers had an actual “luck by chance” to get pleasure from their booze time, particularly throughout competition time, a village mukhia (headman) of Manjhi in border district of Saran district advised The Hindu.
Source: www.thehindu.com