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TopicIllegal liquor business

Topic: illegal liquor business

14 dead, 6 hospitalised in Punjab’s Majitha after drinking hooch; cops arrest distributor

Police have registered two FIRs against manufacturers and distributor and say manufacturers will be rounded up soon.

Death toll rises to 57 in Tamil Nadu’s Kallakuruchi hooch tragedy

A total of seven people including 5 men and 2 women out of 156 people who were undergoing treatment at hospitals in Tamil Nadu after consuming illicit liquor have been discharged.

Bhopal MP Pragya Thakur accuses BJP MLA of running illegal liquor shop in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore

In her statement, which comes after she was denied renomination as BJP candidate for LS polls, she says she'll ask BJP top leadership to remove MLA Sudesh Rai from his position.

9 UP Police & excise personnel booked over deaths from ‘illicit liquor’, accused of bribery

Agra vigilance inspector Dushyant Tiwari says police were well aware of illicit liquor being sold. Three deaths on 17 November that triggered probe ‘were preceded by another’.

42 deaths, 15 arrests, 6 suspensions: How ‘liquor crackdown led to’ hooch tragedy in dry Gujarat

42 people have died in Gujarat over the past few days in worst case of mass-poisoning by spurious alcohol in Gujarat since 2009, when a similar incident reportedly claimed over 125 lives. 

Schools shut for Covid, Bihar teens find new way to pass time & earn — deliver illegal booze

Liquor trade has been flourishing in Bihar despite a ban since April 2016. Procuring alcohol is a punishable offence, yet the law has served as little impediment to the trade.

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