PM Home State Greets Hooch Tragedy
- 28-Jul-2022
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10 Held for Selling Spurious Liquor
Ahmedabad: The death toll in Gujarat’s hooch tragedy has further risen to 40 with seven more people succumbing in the last 12 hours. The people have reportedly died due to the consumption of spurious liquor in the state’s Botad district. Out of the deceased, 31 belonged to different villages in Botad and nine were natives of neighbouring Dhandhuka taluka in Ahmedabad district, informs Botad police control room.
Nearly 50 people were still admitted to hospitals in Bhavnagar, Botad and Ahmedabad, he said. The Botad and Ahmedabad police on Tuesday registered three First Information Reports (FIRs) against nearly 20 culprits under Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (murder), 328 (causing hurt by poison) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and have arrested at least 10 of them so far.
The liquor tragedy came to light on early Monday morning when some people living in Rojid village in Botad and other surrounding villages were referred to government hospitals in Barvala area and Botad towns after their health condition started deteriorating.
According to police, forensic analysis has established that the victims consumed methyl alcohol. Primary investigations by police have revealed that some small-time bootleggers of different villages of Botad district had made spurious liquor by mixing water with methyl alcohol or Methanol, a highly poisonous industrial solvent, and sold it to villagers for Rs 20 per pouch.
