An FIR has been registered in which JD(U) MLA Ajay Mandal’s father and cousin have been made named accused following the recovery of an illegal country liquor manufacturing unit at a diara land at Amapur.
According to district excise superintendent Om Prakesh Mandal, a team with local police from Ghogha and Rashulpur police stations conducted raids at Amapur, some 22km east of Bhagalpur, and recovered the country liquor manufacturing unit on Tuesday evening. According to Om Prakash, two rooms — where the unit was functioning over more than a year — came up on the land of Ramdas Mandal, the MLA’s father.
Ajay, however, denied his father’s involvement in it.
“The land once belonged to my father but he distributed it among my three brothers. At present, my elder brother’s son takes care of it. As we live separate, we don’t know what goes on there.”