Bootlegging racket busted in Bihar, 2 SKMCH mess hall staff arrested
Muzaffarpur: Police on Sunday claimed to have cracked down on the illicit liquor trade, which was being run from within the premises of the largest government healthcare facility in north Bihar.
Raid conducted on the mess hall of Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital in Muzaffarpur district of the dry state led to the recovery of 51 litres of liquor, said Ahiyapur police station SHO Nitesh Kumar.
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He also said the raid was conducted upon receiving information that liquor was being illegally sold in tetra packs at the mess hall which mainly caters to MBBS students of the medical college.
Two persons, including the in-charge of the mess hall, have been arrested and further investigation is on.
Sales and consumption of alcohol have been completely banned in the state since April 2016.
Bootlegging, however, remains rampant and seizure of truckloads of liquor smuggled from other states has been a routine affair.
Besides, hooch tragedies have claimed more than 50 lives in the last six months.
Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) was established in 1970, this college is approved by MCI and is the second-largest Medical College and Hospital in North Bihar.
Medical Dialogues team had earlier published that based on a tip-off that a retired director of the Maharashtra council of Medical, Paramedical Science in Ahmednagar provided fake registration certificates to many fake doctors, the crime branch arrested him.
The police first received a tip-off about some quacks and later informed the crime branch about this case. Following the crime branch unit, 7 raided the Pant Nagar vicinity of Ghatkopar and arrested him.
The 65-year-old accused named Neelkant Namdev Misal has been taken into custody by the crime branch from Taloja jail in a two-year-old similar cheating case.
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