Ahead of the Holi festival, the Bokaro police launched a major crackdown on the illegal liquor trade and seized a huge consignment of spurious foreign liquor in the Chatrochatti police station area on Sunday. This was the second incident in the past 24 hours in which police seized a huge stock of fake liquor bottles in Bermo sub-division.

Bokaro SP Harvinder Singh said that acting on specific intelligence inputs, a police team conducted a raid at Narkandi village, where a large quantity of fake Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) was allegedly stored in a rented house near a local tower.

The materials were allegedly used to manufacture and package spurious liquor for distribution in the local market. Police also seized the pickup van used to transport the illegal consignment.