The three policemen who had been dismissed by the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, Central Range, Patna, are Vishwambhar Prasad and Sunil Kumar, each Sub-Inspectors, and Shravan Kumar, an Assistant Sub-Inspector.

The DIG had issued dismissal orders yesterday on the advice of Patna Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Manu Maharaj, they mentioned.

The subject of policemen’s involvement in defending liquor mafia was probed by Superintendent of Police (West) who in its report discovered them responsible of the cost, DIG Rajesh Kumar mentioned.

Earlier, on the premise of the SP (West) report, the three policemen had been suspended and a departmental continuing was initiated towards them, he mentioned.

DIG, Patna had yesterday additionally suspended Fatuha police station SHO Avinash Kumar in Patna for alleged dereliction of responsibility for not taking additional motion in a restoration of giant amount of liquor throughout a raid on June 7.

Kumar has additionally been charged with ignoring orders of his superiors in a number of different circumstances of murders.

Ever because the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act 2016 was enforced on April 5 final 12 months, 15 police personnel, together with these three officers, have been dismissed from the service for conniving with unlawful liquor merchants, they mentioned.