Carrying liquor, travelling after consuming liquor or clandestinely consuming liquor in the running trains would land passengers in big trouble including jail as the railway passengers have been put under the railway police’s scanner, said Inspector RPF Gaya Ajay Prakash. RPF Senior Divisional Security Commissioner, MGS under ECR, A.K.Mishra said that the railway police, on the basis of reports about smuggling of liquor through trains originating from Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Maharashtra, Delhi etc and passing through the state besides consuming liquor kept in cold water bottles being carried by them, have undertaken painstaking initiative to stop the menace. In the special drive undertaken by the RRP, Gaya between the Dhanbad-Gaya-Mugalsarai-Patna railway section, the police teams of RPF have embarked on the drive to check the train passengers and their luggage to stop liquor peddling in the region.
Apart from checking the baggage, RPF Sub Inspector Monika Singh was patrolling at PF No. 02 and 03 with other forces while train number 13010 to secure Dn pass and to monitor criminal activities. During the patrol, a person was looking back with his backpack repeatedly, when he was stopped and questioned on suspicion, has been identified as Ripu Das, son of Beni Ravidas 24 a resident at Belaganj in district Gaya Bihar. When asked about the goods kept in it, he could not give any satisfactory answer. After searching the bag, 48 nos. officer's choice whiskey, and 02 nos. Officer's choice whiskey from his bag, kept in a carton, were seized and the arrested person and the confiscated goods were handed over to GRP Gaya along with a written complaint letter where under Bihar Excise Act - 2018 U/S - 30(a) Case No. 36/2022 has been registered.