Bokaro: A joint team of Jamui (Bihar) police and the Bihar excise department with the support of the Bokaro administration raided a liquor manufacturing unit, Shree Om Bottlers and Blenders Private Limited, on Saturday night. The team seized more than 700 boxes of liquor bottles stocked in a godown located adjacent to the manufacturing unit.
Although the liquor manufacturing unit is licensed, the godown adjacent to it where the liquor bottles were seized is unlicensed. The liquor factory belongs to businessman Anil Singh. Apart from liquor manufacturing, Singh has other business ventures. Singh did not respond when contacted.
The SP of Jamui, Pramod Kumar Mandal, said over the phone: “The raid was conducted following the seizure of a huge stock of liquor bottles from a truck parked near a dhaba at Panaut Moad in Malaypur area of Jamui on April 9.” The truck’s driver said he loaded the liquor from Bokaro. Six people were arrested in Jamui.
DSP Aditya Kumar, who was heading the raid team, said: “The bottles seized from the godown here and those recovered from the truck two days ago were of the same brand. The brand is an unlicensed one. Even the godown in which the stocks were kept is illegal as per the local excise department.”
The subdivisional officer (SDO) of Chas, Shashi Prakash Singh, also visited the factory after receiving the information of the raid.
The SDO said: “The local administration will also investigate whether the permits and license of the manufacturing unit and the brand being produced are valid or not.”
The local excise department is also investigating to verify the status and ownership of the godown.