Motihari Customs Seizes Narcotics.
HAVE you heard of Motihari? Most probably, no. It is a small district headquarters in Bihar on the border of Nepal. This is the place where the famous author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell was born in 1903. His father worked in the Opium Department there. Opium still seems to be the in thing in Motihari. There is a Customs Division in Motihari headed by a fresh IRS officer, Dr. Shashank Yadav, who with boring regularity books Narcotics cases.
On Saturday, he and his officers after a hot chase detained a mini truck with 700 kgs of cannabis valued at Rs. 14 lakhs.
The Patna Customs Preventive Commissionerate is headed by Kishori Lal who has a couple of ‘just-out-of-NACEN-IRS officers' who are keen on busting all smuggling of drugs in the Indo Nepal Border.