According to sources, the success of the alcohol mafia in illegal operations was due to the assistance provided by the police and officials from the excise or liquor prohibition departments.Expect the activities of the liquor cartel to rise during Christmas and New Year festivities.
The internal surveillance team will secretly monitor the activities of each officer.The team will evaluate all the officer’s results.
This initiative was taken in Bihar for the first-time,” a home department official said.
Surveillance teams can observe individual officers’ activities, compile a report, and then send it to special vigilance for further action.
The special vigilance unit raided several properties belonging to a SP rank officer from the liquor prohibition division on December 8.Property documents as well as Rs.94 lakh cash were taken.
Avinash Prakash, an officer from East Champaran was appointed SP at the Excise and Liquor Prohibition department in Motihari.
The sleuths discovered 15 bank accounts belonging to Prakash, his wife and their assets during the raid.Three flat registry papers were also taken.
These three flats had been registered under the wife’s name.
An official from the vigilance office said that the officer had strong connections to the liquor mafia.
A warrant from Patna’s special vigilance court was used to conduct the raid.
“The internal surveillance team has already started work in every district of Bihar.It will intensify operations from December 15 to the first week of January.”
The official said that the Panchayat election is ending on December 15 and the home department has made comprehensive plans to initiate massive operations against the liquor mafia.The liquor mafia apparently has strong links with police and liquor prohibition department officials.
“We are assuming that the demand for liquor will increase in the urban areas of Bihar during year end.We are keeping an eye on event organisers, hotels, banquet halls and farm houses of individuals.These places are ideal for organising liquor parties,” the officer said.
Samrat Chaudhary, the Panchayati Raj minister in Bihar said: “Restricting the liquor mafia in the rural areas is an uphill task.Hence, we have decided to install 100 CCTV cameras in each village Panchayat of Bihar.The state has 8471 village Panchayats and all of them will be covered through the third eye.”
“Our chief minister has made comprehensive plans for the urban and rural areas of the state.The activities of corrupt officers will be monitored by surveillance teams in every district and at the same time, the activities of the liquor mafia and police officers will be monitored through CCTV cameras at the village level,” Chaudhary said.
“The CCTV cameras will be operated through a command centre which will be installed in district headquarters and it’s feed will go directly to the central command centre in Patna,” Chaudhary said.
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