Patna : Railway police in Patna on Wednesday arrested three men from Platform No. 2 of Patna Junction and seized 277 bottles of foreign liquors hidden in storage carton boxes and three sound boxes.

Patna Junction GRP police station Pramod Kumar told the reporters that during a routine search of boxes at the eastern end of Platform No. 2 resulted in the discovery of 51 India Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) bottles in three sound boxes and 226 bottles in cardboard boxes with the label of Tetra Pak.

The arrested men were identified as Suresh Rai, Ajay Kumar, and Mukesh Kumar – all residents of Raghopur in Vaishali district.

During their interrogation, Suresh told the police that Mukesh had just gotten down from the Vikramshila Express and the three men had been running the bootlegging business in Patna for some time after total prohibition was imposed in Bihar.

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