Danapur (Bihar) [India], December 21 (ANI): Police recovered illicit liquor bottles hidden in a gutter in Danapur on Wednesday.

"We received information regarding illicit liquor bottles hidden inside a gutter. We borrowed machines from the municipal corporation to fetch those bottles. We have recovered a good quantity of liquor and arrested a person," Danapur SHO Kamleshwar Prasad Singh told reporters.

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The bottles were recovered from the gutter with the help of a JCB machine.

This comes in the wake of tragic incident reported last week from Bihar's Saran district in which over 60 people died after consuming spurious liquor at a local joint. After the deaths, angry villagers blocked the Masrakh Hanuman Chowk on Bihar State Highway 90 and raised slogans against the district administration. (ANI)

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