THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, May 13: The Paton police, led by Officer-in-Charge Lalji, made a significant recovery when they unearthed an illicit liquor bottling and packaging operation hidden beneath a bedroom.
The discovery was far from ordinary, as the operation had been meticulously concealed by 35-year-old Jitender Prasad.
The Critical Mistake That Led to the Discovery
Prasad had ingeniously set up the illicit business in a dark basement below his opulent bedroom in Kundri village.
The room, well-tiled and lavishly furnished, gave no clue to the illegal activity lurking underneath. However, as is often the case with wrongdoers, Prasad made a critical mistake—he overlooked a key detail.
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One of the tiles in the bedroom, which had a hook attached, caught the attention of Lalji and his team. Despite Prasad’s efforts to cover the tile with a steel trunk, the police team did not miss the unusual feature. This mistake ultimately led to his arrest and the discovery of the underground operation.
Lalji told this correspondent, “We raided his house pre midnight on May 11. The bedroom was well lit.”
“There was a steel trunk. Our cops displaced it and found a hook-laden tile. We knew we had got what we wanted,” added Lalji.
Discovery of Bottling Operation
A staircase was placed with which the police team went down to the underground room. It had bottles of costly wine and empty bottles, caps and wrappers to make a further dilution of the original wine to pass the diluted and packaged wine as a branded wine to earn profit by fraud and dishonesty and malpractice.
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Thus, dilution, bottling, packaging of illicit liquor were going on right beneath the bedroom!
The Paton police team did a wonderful act of professionalism, said sources. Any overlook of the hooked tile would have been a total washout of the pre-midnight raid by the police.
