Tag: Muzaffarpur

  • Illicit liquor worth 10 lakh recovered

    Illicit liquor worth 10 lakh recovered

    Muzaffarpur: Liquor mafia in Bihar is adopting new tactics every day. So at the same time the administration is also trying to control it in one way or the other. The latest case has come to the fore from Muzaffarpur. Where the administration has caught a large consignment of more than 100 cartons of illegal liquor hidden by building a cellar on the banks of the river.

    Illicit liquor worth 10 lakh recovered

    Whose price is being told more than 10 lakh rupees. To avoid any doubt, the liquor mafia hid the liquor by making a big pit and covered it with thermocol and razed it to the ground. But the District Excise Department has discovered it. Giving information in the matter, District Excise Department Inspector Abhinav Kumar said that a large consignment of liquor hidden in a pit named Tehkhana on the river bank of Ahiyapur police station area of Muzaffarpur has been recovered.

    Action is being taken after identifying the businessman

    The liquor dealer had hidden it very carefully so that no one could be suspicious. On which action has been taken by the team of Product Department. The seized liquor is made from Chandigarh in Punjab. The businessman is being identified in the case. And further action is being taken.

  • Police recovered 29 cartons of foreign liquor from Bolero

    Police recovered 29 cartons of foreign liquor from Bolero

    Muzaffarpur. There is total prohibition in Bihar. Despite this, the liquor business in the state is not taking the name of stopping. On the other hand, liquor traders are seen adopting new tactics for smuggling. However, the Muzaffarpur police is also continuously running a special campaign to crack down on these liquor traders.

    In this sequence, Sahebganj police station in-charge of the district, Rajesh Ranjan, got a secret information that some liquor traders were bringing a consignment of liquor from Chhapra to Muzaffarpur in a Bolero vehicle. After which the team under the leadership of Sahebganj police station in-charge Rajesh Ranjan conducted a vehicle checking campaign in Rampur of police station area. In this sequence, a Bolero was seen coming fast from Chhapra side. Who was signaled to stop by the team.

    But on seeing the police team, the businessmen took advantage of the opportunity and left the vehicle and fled from the spot. When the police checked the vehicle, about 29 cartoons of foreign liquor were recovered from there. In the matter, Sahebganj police station chief Rajesh Ranjan said that secret information was received that some liquor traders from Chhapra were coming towards Muzaffarpur with a consignment of liquor on a Bolero. After which vehicle checking campaign was conducted in Rampur of police station area. Only then a Bolero vehicle was seen coming from Chhapra.

    Those who were signaled to stop, only then the businessmen left the car and fled after seeing the opportunity. When the vehicle was searched, 29 cartoons of foreign liquor were recovered from the vehicle. After which the team seized the vehicle and brought it to the police station with them. On the other hand, further action is being taken by identifying the businessmen on the basis of the seized vehicle.

  • Bihar: 4 dead, 7 injured in Muzaffarpur slum fire

    Bihar: 4 dead, 7 injured in Muzaffarpur slum fire

    As many as four people died while seven others were injured after a fire broke out near Ramdayalu railway station in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, officials said on Tuesday.

    “The fire broke out in a slum near Ramdayalu Railway station at around 12 am last night. In this incident, 4 people died and 7 were injured,” Sudhanshu Shekhar, CO Mushahari, Muzaffarpur.

    “Possible immediate relief will be given to the victims,” he said.

    Fire was brought under control

    Immediately after the incident, the fire department was informed and after some time the fire was brought under control, he said.

    “Seven others who sustained burn injuries in the slum fire are undergoing treatment at the Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH),” he said.

    The exact reason behind the fire is yet to be ascertained. Further investigation is underway.

  • Mobile tower stolen again from Muzaffarpur in Bihar, FIR lodged

    Mobile tower stolen again from Muzaffarpur in Bihar, FIR lodged

    Muzaffarpur (IANS) | Once again a case of mobile tower theft has come to light in the Nagar police station area of Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. Even before this, mobile tower has been stolen from Muzaffarpur itself, which is now being investigated by the police that another mobile tower theft incident has happened again. The mobile tower company has lodged an FIR in the concerned police station. According to the police, a mobile tower of GTL Infrastructure and Company Limited was installed at New Colony Balu Ghat in Sikandarpur OP of Nagar police station area. The thieves have stolen all the equipment including the generator of this mobile tower.

    However, the police have started investigation considering the matter as suspicious. An FIR has been lodged in the city police station regarding the theft of mobile tower in Sikandar OP.

    Muzaffarpur (City) Deputy Superintendent of Police Raghav Dayal said that an FIR has been registered for the theft of the mobile tower. Prima facie this matter seems suspicious. He said that during the investigation it was found that thieves had made away with all the goods of this tower 4-5 months back and now an FIR is being lodged. He, however, added that the matter is being probed.

    It is said that the mobile tower which was stolen was lying closed for a long time. When it was inspected by the company, all its equipment including the tower were found missing.

    It is worth mentioning that earlier also the case of mobile tower theft in Bhagwanpur had come to the fore. The police still have not been able to crack the case.

    –IANS

  • Railway ticket confirmation game busted in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, over 200 letterheads seized

    Railway ticket confirmation game busted in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, over 200 letterheads seized

    Patna (IANS) | The Visakhapatnam Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Muzaffarpur Police in a joint operation on Tuesday busted an interstate railway ticket confirming gang in Bihar. They have also seized over 200 letterheads of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs and MLAs. The gang leader has spread his network in almost every state and only PNR numbers of unconfirmed tickets are required for confirmation under MP quota.

    The RPF of Andhra Pradesh had registered an FIR on 1 June 2022 at Marupulam Police Station in Visakhapatnam. During the investigation RPF had arrested some touts who had disclosed the modus operandi of getting unconfirmed tickets confirmed.

    Inspector R Kumar Rao, who reached Muzaffarpur with the RPF team, informed the district police about this. Accordingly, a joint team raided Srikrishna Nagar area under Sadar PS. The accused came to know about the raid and fled from the spot before the arrival of the raiding party.

    The accused was approached by touts and he used to send only PNR numbers. He was using letterheads of various MPs to confirm tickets under the VIP quota reserved for MPs. The police team is raiding his possible hideouts to arrest him.

    –IANS

  • The lover who went to meet his girlfriend was beaten to death

    The lover who went to meet his girlfriend was beaten to death

    Muzaffarpur (IANS) | A young man had to pay the price of his life by giving his life to meet his girlfriend in Benibad Sub-station area of Muzaffarpur, Bihar. It is alleged that the family members of the girlfriend caught the young man and beat him to death.

    According to the police, Sonu Sahni, a resident of Mahuara village, had gone to Kanta village on Monday night with two-three friends to meet his girlfriend.

    The relatives of the girl got to know about Sonu’s arrival. The relatives tried to catch all the youths. During this Sonu was caught, but the friends accompanying him managed to escape.

    It is alleged that the family members of the girl beat Sonu fiercely with a stick, due to which he died.

    After this, the dead body was thrown in the sub-stream of Bagmati river. When people saw the dead body on Tuesday morning, it was informed to the police.

    Muzaffarpur (East) Deputy Superintendent of Police Manoj Pandey said that the police reached the spot and took the body in their custody and sent it to the hospital for postmortem, the whole matter is being investigated.

    He told that some people are being interrogated in this matter by taking them into custody.

    –IANS

  • Odisha STF recovered fake O2 pills worth Rs 10 lakh from Muzaffarpur

    Odisha STF recovered fake O2 pills worth Rs 10 lakh from Muzaffarpur

    Bhubaneswar: A team of Special Task Force (DES) of Odisha Police has seized a huge stock of spurious O2 drugs from Muzaffarpur in Bihar.

    According to an official press release on Sunday, the team comprising Dharmadev Puhan, Assistant Drugs Controller, Cuttack Circle-I; Tushar Ranjan Panigrahi, Assistant Drugs Controller, Cuttack Circle-II and Haripriya Mallick, Drugs Inspector Cuttack-II Range was formed to investigate into O2 drugs detected in Cuttack recently.

    After the team found that the racket extended outside Odisha, it carried out investigation at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh and at Muzaffarpur on the instructions of Health and Family Welfare department.

    They detected that the main culprit of the spurious O2 tablets was Manish Kumar of Muzaffarpur. They could establish that the accused had acquired huge stock of the drug from illegal sources and supplied those to other firms having no drug licence.

    The team with the assistance of Drugs Control officials of Muzaffarpur seized spurious drugs worth around Rs 10 lakh stocked unauthorisedly from the house of Manish Kumar. But they could not arrest him as he was absconding.

    The STF team has shared some important information with the Purighat police station in Cuttack about the prime accused to arrest him.

  • Negligence of Muzaffarpur jail officials, released another prisoner

    Negligence of Muzaffarpur jail officials, released another prisoner

    Patna (IANS) | In a bizarre case of negligence at the Shaheed Khudiram Bose Jail in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, the jail authorities in November last year released another man of the same name, whose release was ordered by the court. While the police managed to nab the wrongfully released man and sent him back to jail on Sunday, the prison cell of the state police suspended an assistant jail superintendent for negligence.

    The police said that the entire incident took place due to the similarity of the names of the two prisoners. The incident is of 20 November 2022, when a court in Muzaffarpur ordered the release of Guddu Kumar, son of Ramdev Sahani of Shankar Patti village of Minapur police station area, but the jail authorities released Guddu Kumar, son of Dhaneshwar Rai. Both were residents of the same village.

    When the parents of Guddu Kumar, who was released, came to know about the development, they contacted the jail authorities but to no avail and then wrote letters to the higher authorities. When the matter came to the notice of senior officials, they sought an explanation from Jail Superintendent Brajesh Kumar, who initiated an inquiry into the matter and found negligence on the part of Assistant Superintendent-cum-admission in-charge Priyanka.

    In his report, he has mentioned that Priyanka released another Guddu Kumar without matching his name and address. Based on the report of the jail superintendent, the jail cell suspended Priyanka.

    –IANS