>> Police in neighbouring Bihar state in the same year claimed rats had drunk nearly one million litres of alcohol kept in storerooms in one of the country’s few dry states.

Apparently, rats have learnt how to open the alcohol bottles. /s ;)

> one million litres of alcohol kept in storerooms

so not in bottles :) /s Anyway, rats are inteligent animals.

Valuing a gram on the low end of 10$ per gram puts that at millions of dollars in untraceable funds to use on hacking journalists phones