The Bihar Police has launched a massive manhunt to find ruling Janata Dal United MLC Manorama Devi, who is wanted to defying liquor ban imposed by the state government.

The police is conducting search in Barachatti area of Gaya and near Bihar-Jharkhand border. The house and other properties of Manorama Devi was sealed by State Excise Department and Bihar Police on Wednesday after an arrest warrant was issued against her for allegedly defying the liquor ban imposed by the government.

Manorama went into hiding after she was suspended from the party for "protecting a murder accused" yesterday. The police had recovered six bottles of IMFL from the MLC's AP Colony house where police had gone searching for her son Rakesh Ranjan Yadav alias Rocky in connection with Gaya road rage death case.

Rocky was arrested on Tuesday on the charge of killing a 19-year-old schoolboy after the latter overtook the Range Rover of the MLC's son in Gaya Police Lines area on May 7 night.

Manorama Devi was suspended by JD(U) state president Bashishtha Narain Singh on the advice of party's national president Nitish Kumar, who is also the CM of Bihar.