Bihar's biggest liquor consignment worth Rs 1.25 crore destroyed by road roller in Patna

The Patna administration on Monday destroyed 30000 bottles of Indian made foreign liquor worth almost Rs. 1.25 crore on the outskirts of the city. Being tipped as Bihar's biggest consignment of liquor destroyed ever since prohibition was imposed in the state in April last year, the bottles were crushed by a road roller under the monitoring of Patna DM Sanjay Agarwal.

The bottles destroyed on Monday were part of the various seizures made by the police and the excise officials in the last few months from various parts of the state capital.

On May 4, it had been reported how liquor worth crores had gone missing from the "maalkhanas" in police stations in Bihar with the rats being blamed for this by the police officials.

Soon after the report, the Patna administration had flung into action and on May 9, 17000 bottles of foreign liquor were



destroyed.

"We had seized the consignment destroyed today from many parts of the state capital which was being brought to be supplied to customers further. Today, 30000 bottles worth Rs. 1.25 crore have been destroyed and we will be destroying the liquors bottles as and when we get court's permission in the future as well", said Sanjay Agarwal.

Prohibition was imposed in Bihar in April 2016 and since then, on a regular basis, the excise and police officials have been recovering huge consignments of foreign liquor from the state which are being smuggled from Jharkhand, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

More than 5 lakh litres of foreign liquor and 3 lakh litres of country made liquor have been seized since April 2016. Out of the seized liquor, almost 1.55 lakh litres of liquor has been destroyed in 20 districts across the state.