In an excise police station in Paliganj, Bihar’s Patna, five detainees and two policemen were found on Thursday having a celebration with liquor. The police have arrested all seven.
The officers and constables who were missing from the police station on the intervening nights of Tuesday and Wednesday will be the subject of a full report from the police, which will also ask the excise and prohibition department to take appropriate measures.
Because of the ban on liquor, Bihar is a dry state. After a video of prisoners entertaining themselves at a party involving liquor went viral and reached top officials, the incident that occurred inside an excise police station came to light.
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Investigation started by the police
The police have started investigation about how the liquor was brought to the jail. The officers believe that either a member of the excise police station staff or a third party with ties to the detained officers and detainees provided the alcohol.
Awadhesh Dixit, the ASP of Paliganj, was one among the recipients of the prisoner’s film of the alcohol party inside the cell, which he had shared to a number of persons on his contact list.
The Paliganj Police raided the excise police station after obtaining the video and put a halt to the “party.” When they got there, the lock-up was locked from the outside.
“We received information about it. We went to verify it and found them drinking alcohol. All are prisoners. How they got alcohol and other things is part of the probe,” SDPO Paliganj was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
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