Siwan police unearth 2 illegal liquor factories

PATNA: The Siwan police on Monday unearthed two illegal liquor factories running at two different villages in Siwan district and seized 1,240 country-made liquor pouches on Sunday and Saturday night. In the first incident, a police team comprising Town police station in-charge SHO Ramesh Kumar Mishra, Mufassil police station SHO Ram Kumar Singh and Dhanauti police station SHO R N Yadav on Sunday carried out a raid at Sandip Kumar’s house and unearthed an illegal liquor factory there.
In another incident, a Jamo police team carried out a raid at the house of one Anil Choudhary at village Paitalish late on Saturday evening and unearthed a liquor factory running there. Siwan SP Satyaveer Singh said that at Dhanauti, police team seized 500 pouches of ready-made liquor, 50 litres spirit, pouch manufacturing machine, three gas cylinders besides empty pouches from there. He said three persons --Sandip Kumar, Nitish Kumar and a buyer Pankaj Kumar-- were arrested from there. The local police are investigating the role of Pankaj in the entire episode.
Singh said at village Paitalish, the police team seized 740 pouches of country-made liquor. Excise officials had carried out raids twice at Anil’s illegal factory and had lodged two separate cases against him in 2008. He said though Anil had license in 2010-11, at present he has no license to manufacture liquor and had removed the liquor manufacturing machine from there. Raids are on to arrest him, the SP added.