If the Bihar officials are to be believed, rodents are the latest consumer of liquor in the state. According to officials, rodents have consumed several lakh litres of liquor from seized stock stored in police stations.
According to reports, the meeting of police inspectors of the district was convened in view of the upcoming civic elections, in which this startle revelation was made to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Patna, Manu Maharaj.
When Mr. Maharaj, enquired about the seized bottles, he was informed that most of the liquor bottles were either consumed by the rats or was destroyed by them.
Ever since the prohibition was imposed in Bihar since April 2016, the police have seized a huge amount of bottles. According to reports, almost all police stations have been facing space crunch to store the seized bottles.
As per the government records, over five lakh litres of liquor has been seized and more than 40,000 people have been arrested in the last one year in the state.
The Senior Superintendent of Police after hearing about this issue has asked the officials to make all police stations free of rats.
When Mr. Maharaj was contacted by the Hindu, he said that “he had also ordered that police officials too would now have to go through random ‘breathalyzer test’ at police stations and if they fail the test they could even lose their jobs, apart from being prosecuted under the new stringent excise and prohibition laws.”
