It was Sanoj Kumar’s last call on August 13 that chilled the family to the bone. Sanoj, a mason in Bihar’s Bhojpur, had allegedly told them a few minutes earlier that he had been detained during an excise raid near Bihiya in Bhojpur, and the family had been trying to get in touch with him. Then the call allegedly came. “Please don’t call me… the [excise] police are beating me up,” Sanoj had wailed from the other side. For 10 months now, the 31-year-old Dalit man has been missing, with investigators saying he was among the three people detained during an excise raid near an illegal watering hole. Earlier this week, five government officials and two of their van drivers were arrested over the disappearance — a development that came after sustained monitoring by the Patna High Court. Those arrested are Excise Assistant Sub-Inspectors Dheeraj Kumar and Raj Kumar, Home Guards Dharmendra Paswan, Umesh Kumar Yadav and Raju Kumar Singh, and two private drivers, Surendra Kumar Singh and Vikash Kumar. The police claimed the arrests …