UP FCI officer caught with foreign liquor in dry Bihar

Police Tuesday arrested an officer of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) for possessing two bottles of foreign liquor during a vehicle checking drive in Sheikhpura district of Bihar, a dry state.

The officer was identified as Sanjiv Kumar, who is posted as assistant manager of FCI in Faizabad district of Uttra Pradesh, Superintendent of Police Daya Shankar said.

The liquor was found inside the car of Kumar, who is originally from Nalanda district of Bihar, near Narayanpur village on NH 82 under Barbigha police station limits.

Kumar's car has also been seized, the SP said.

The FCI officer had come to attend a function at a relative's place in Sheikhpura.

An intense vehicle checking drive has been launched in view of the first phase of polling to be held on April 11.

Bihar is dry state since April 2016 and manufacture, distribution, transportation, possession, trade and consumption of liquor are banned in the state.