This story is from February 8, 2020

Begusarai man refuses booze glass, gets killed

Though liquor is prohibited in the state, his refusal to provide a plastic glass for boozing cost a 55-year-old man his life in Begusarai district on Thursday night.
Begusarai man refuses booze glass, gets killed
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PATNA: Though liquor is prohibited in the state, his refusal to provide a plastic glass for boozing cost a 55-year-old man his life in Begusarai district on Thursday night.
The incident took place at Suja village under Mufassil police station when one Manoj Sah, along with his accomplices, thrashed grocery shopowner Ram Ratan Singh with sticks and blunt objects for refusing to give them a glass for consuming liquor.

The injured was rushed to a nearby primary health centre from where he was referred to Sadar hospital where he succumbed to his injuries early Friday morning. Singh’s relatives alleged that Manoj, who runs a tea stall at the village, had demanded a glass for boozing at his shop.
Eyewitnesses said Sah’s accomplices also opened fire in the air to terrorise the local residents, who couldn’t muster courage to chase them. Sah also escaped apprehending retaliation from the victim’s family.
Mufassil police station SHO Raj Bindu Prasad said Sah assaulted Singh following a brawl, but he refused to disclose the reason behind the incident. “Both the deceased and the accused are neighbours and the two had an altercation on Thursday evening, which led to the killing of Singh,” he told this newspaper over phone.
The SHO said raids were on to nab the accused. Singh’s body was handed over to the family after postmortem.

The police said the deceased was physically disabled and used to earn livelihood for the family by running the grocery shop.
Barely a few hours before the fatal attack on Singh, a police team seized 14 cartons of India made foreign liquor (IMFL) from an SUV near Rustama village in Begusarai district. “Liquor is easily available on demand in the district but at a high rate,” a trader of Teghra subdivisional town claimed.
The sale, consumption and manufacture of liquor are banned in the state under Bihar Excise and Prohibition Act 2016. Even all the SHOs had given in writing to the state police headquarters that the provisions of liquor ban were being strictly implemented under their jurisdiction.
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