Patna: Police in Patna on Thursday arrested four postal employees from Patna GPO on charges of consuming alcohol in the post office premises following a party to honor a retiring employee.
As reported, someone who works in the same building, called the Kotwali Police around 2:30 pm saying some postal employees in the Check Clearance Section on the ground floor were drinking alcoholic beverage in violation of the prohibition laws.
Soon Kotwali DSP Shibli Nomani arrived there with a team of police and found two bottles of half-empty foreign liquor on the table along with some snacks to go with them.
After giving them breathalyzer test, the four men were arrested and brought to the Kotwali police station.
Arrested men were identified as Postal Assistant Eric Anil Kumar Topno, a native of Ranchi, Amit Kumar of Bhagalpur, Rajiv Kumar of Warsaliganj, and Nawal Kishore of Banka. All four lived in Patna in rented flats.
A fifth person who was identified as Subodh Kumar had gone out to get some more snacks managed to give slip to the cops.
Attempts are on to arrest Subodh and to find out who was supplying liquor to these postal employees, Nomani said. |
