patna prohibition excise and registration department minister sunil kumar said in the state assembly on tuesday that the conviction rate in the cases lodged against violators of the prohibition law in the state is 2198kumar said this in reply to the short notice question raised by bjp member sanjay saraogi during the question hour held in the prelunch sessionwhile the prohibition had come into force in the state in april 2016 over 549 lakh cases of violation of the law involving arrest of 749 lakh persons have been registered till january this year the minister said adding the government has set up 74 special courts excise to conduct the trial of the accused personsthe minister said 124 lakh liquor cases have been disposed of through the court trial in which the courts have ordered punishment in 123 lakh cases the conviction rate is 2198 of the total cases registered kumar said adding raids were being conducted regularly to check illegal production transportation sale and consumption of liquor in the statethe quantum of the seized country liquor is 9671 lakh litres and that of illegal foreign liquor is 154 crore litres besides 86174 vehicles have also been seized the minister said he added 223 lakh raids have been conducted since march 2018 resulting in the arrest of 9844 persons including persons from other states who were involved in the manufacture and transportation of liquor into bihar that has porous border with nepal jharkhand west bengal and uttar pradeshwhile saraogi in his supplementary question raised the issue of manufacture and sale of spurious liquor in the state that had caused deaths even though prohibition is in force he also said that the families of those who had died should have been compensated citing the national crime records bureau ncrb data regarding hooch deaths in karnataka punjab and rajasthan which do not have prohibition in force kumar said production trade and consumption of spurious liquor had no connection with prohibition and 197 persons had died in bihar due to hooch consumption