Booze ban in bihar: cctv cameras to help officials nab drunkards
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ALCOHOL SELLERS IN BORDER AREAS Despite excise and police officials sniffing around, looking for drunkards in liquor-banned Bihar, Bacchus lovers are having a whale of a time at Kishanganj
border which shares its border with Islampur in neighbouring West Bengal. Similar reports have poured in from Buxar and Mohania (which share the border with Uttar Pradesh), Gaya and Rajauli
(which share their border with Jharkhand) and Madhubani and Champaran (bordering Nepal). There have been reports of a quantum jump in the sale of liquor in all these border areas in
neighbouring states as well as the Himalayan Kingdom. When Nitish got wind of this modus operandi, he asked senior officials to launch a crackdown on such drunkards, who even though they
were not legally violating the prohibition, were frustrating the Chief Minister’s efforts for a complete ban. After Nitish’s diktat, patrolling in border areas has been intensified and those
who consumed alcohol (even in other states) are being booked. One such case was a groom who was travelling from Punjab to West Bengal, but was found to have consumed liquor in the train
passing through Bihar. He was arrested and sent to jail.