Educate five children for three months: Bihar court to liquor smuggler granted bail

Parents must certify this was done, rules judge in Jhanjharpur.

A namesake of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was granted bail by a local court on Tuesday, after nine months of imprisonment under the new prohibition law, on condition that he would enable free education for five underprivileged children for three months, which the parents would certify. Avinash Kumar, Additional District Session Judge (First) at Jhanjharpur in Madhubani district of north Bihar, granted bail to accused Nitish Kumar, who was arrested in November 2020 under the strict 2016 State prohibition law. The court also asked the accused to adhere to the law in future. The FIR against the accused was registered at the Madhepur Police Station by the village chowkidar (watchman) Jaldhari Paswan. The complainant said he had received information that some liquor smugglers had reached the vicinity of a temple in Pachahi village in an SUV and a bike. “When I reached there and tried to stop the smugglers, they fled from the spot after firing in the air,” he said.