PATNA: Four members of a ‘baraat’ party were arrested for consuming liquor while on way back home in a bus from Madhepura to West Bengal on Tuesday. They hail from Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri in West Bengal. They were forwarded to jail after production before a court on Wednesday. Liquor is banned in
Bihar.
Police intercepted the bus with at least 60 ‘baraatis’ when one of them threw a liquor bottle from the window at Bagla Pul before Triveniganj in Supaul. Police said a scribe spotted the liquor bottle being thrown and informed senior police officers. The bus was intercepted under Jadiya police station area in
Supaul
district. All the baraatis, including at least three children and women, were subjected to a breathalyser test.
Police said the bus was returning to Jalpaiguri in West Bengal via Supaul with guests who had attended a marriage solemnised at Singheshwar Ashtan temple in Madhepura district on Monday night.
Jadiya police station SHO
Rajesh Choudhary
said those arrested were identified as
Sanjeev Gupta
(44),
Vijay Gupta
(46) and Abhay Shankar Prasad (47) of Darjeeling and Raju Kumar of Navgram under Bhaktinagar police station area in Jalpaiguri district.
“Police also recovered 100ml liquor in a small bottle of mineral water from Sanjeev. Police were unable to recover the liquor bottle thrown from the bus window,” the SHO said.
The SHO said all of them, including three boys of 15 to 17 years of age, were subjected to breathalyser test and four of them were tested positive for alcohol. He said the newly-married couple was not inside the bus. “They had left in a car ahead of the bus,” he added.