State Excise and Taxation Commissioner Yunus, in a statement issued here on Friday, said that 13,000 liters of Lahan (illicit liquor) and 30,000 liters of Lahan was seized destroyed by the Nurpur Excise team.
State Taxes and Excise Commissioner Yunus said that the Excise teams had conducted raids in around 687 suspected places in various districts.
According to the Special Commissioner of Police, Ravinder Singh Yadav, two different crime branch teams have successfully conducted the operation and recovered the liquor.
Ansubhashkar Kushwaha, brother of Amrendra Kumar Kushwaha, Principal of Arjun Memorial Gyan Vidya Mandir in Muzaffarpur, addressed the media jointly with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav at the latter's official residence at 10 Circular House in Patna on Saturday.
For a state that has over the years mastered the art of clandestinely selling intoxicants, transporting and distributing illicit liquor would have proved relatively easy, especially in the absence of competition.
The government announced ex gratia relief of Rs 2 lakh for the kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 for those who are hospitalised.
Expressing concern over the deaths, the chief minister directed Upper Assam Divisional Commissioner Julie Sonowal to inquire into it and submit a report to the government within a month.
A senior government official, according to reports has claimed that around 100 people had consumed the liquor in Salmira tea estate.
Additional Director General of Police (Railways) Sanjay Singhal will head the SIT, which has been mandated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to submit a report within 10 working days.
Over a dozen persons lost their life after consuming spurious liquor in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar on Friday while at least 15 died in neighbouring Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh.
