PATNA: In a first of its kind incident since enforcement of prohibition in Bihar, Gopalganj’s

SHO

and his sub-ordinate

were arrested from the police station premises on Wednesday for allegedly smuggling liquor from the police station premises.

Complete prohibition was enforced in Bihar on April 5, 2016.

Gopalganj SP

, who had formed a special team to probe the matter, while taking to TOI over phone, said that Mahto was a sub-inspector rank officer while Kumar was an assistant sub-inspector rank officer.

He said a team of

(EOU) had also reached Gopalganj following the incident to gather call details and other technical evidences for investigating the case.

Jaman said he had received complaint that a pick-up van was dispatched from the Baikunthpur police station premises after loading it with smuggled liquor on intervening night of September 30 and October 1.

“A probe team was formed which reached the Baikunthpur police station premises after midnight on Tuesday and started interrogating the two officers in which the received information about liquor smuggling from police station premises prima facie turned out to be true,” the SP said.

He said a police team later nabbed

from Mashrakh in Saran district on Wednesday who was the driver of the pick-up van on which the smuggled liquor was loaded for smuggling which was dumped at Mashrakh.

“Sharma, during interrogation, told police that he had reached at the police station premises with empty vehicle along with another person. When he left the station with the pick-up, it was loaded with smuggled liquor,” the SP said.

He said that both police officers have been forwarded to jail for violation of

law and criminal acts.

When, asked, Jaman said it was yet not known that if the liquor smuggled from police station premises was seized item or was unreported or a smuggling racket was operating from the station premises. “Further investigations were on in connection with the incident,” he added.