Two girls amongst 4 of household held for attacking excise officers in Odisha

By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: Four members of a household had been arrested on the fees of attacking excise division officers, who had gone to conduct a raid at their home on Thursday to examine the alleged sale of illicit liquor through the lockdown interval.

The accused individuals included a lady and her two sons and a daughter of Bharatpur space within the metropolis. They are Kumari Nayak (45), her sons – Arun Nayak (29) and Dhusa Nayak (18) and daughter Sunita Nayak (20).

Sources mentioned a group of excise officers was assaulted by the 4 with iron rods and wood sticks after they had been conducting a raid at their home following an allegation of illicit liquor commerce.

The 16-member group, led by officer-in-charge (OIC) of Bhubaneswar Excise station-3 Nilima Jayanti Swain, raided the home at about 9 am and seized over 30 litre illicitl-distilled (ID) liquor from the spot.

During the raid, they launched an all out assault on the excise personnel by which 4 workers sustained accidents.

Swain then contacted Bharatpur police following which a PCR van reached the spot. “All four members of the family started attacking the personnel who were conducting the raid. Locals also gathered preventing the us to carrying out duty. The personnel attempted to defend themselves but some of them sustained injuries in the attack,” mentioned an Excise officer.

The Excise station-3 covers Tamando, Bharatpur, Khandagiri, Chandaka, Airfield, and Lingaraj areas within the metropolis.

Later, Kumari, her two sons and daughter had been taken to Bharatpur police station. “Based on the complaint of the excise officer, a case has been registered under Sections 294, 307, 323, 341, 353, 427, 506 and 34 of IPC,” mentioned an officer of Bharatpur police station.