Why India's poorest state continues to struggle with illegal alcohol sales

Efforts to crack down on bootlegging continue nine years after prohibition was introduced in Bihar.

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The gaps in implementation became glaring as the BBC shadowed Bihar officials in a misty October morning raid on bootleggers.

Armed excise officers, with a sniffer dog, sped across the Ganges on a boat to raid an illegal distillery.

On reaching the outskirts of the capital, Patna, the team found a ramshackle setup of a dozen metal drums - part of a makeshift apparatus fermenting jaggery, a type of cane sugar, into country liquor.

Vapour rose from the drums embedded in the riverside mud, the surfaces still warm.