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High-level probe ordered, several arrests made as hooch toll mounts to 37 in Bihar

October 18, 2024 12:08 pm

Siwan police have made 10 arrests and Saran police 37 arrests so far in connection with the case.

Tamil Nadu hooch tragedy: Why spurious liquor can be deadly

June 20, 2024 3:00 pm

If produced improperly, hooch, or spurious liquor, can kill. Here is why.

Nitish Yatra sweeps past hooch-hit Saran, leaving slogans of 'next PM', disappointed people in wake

January 10, 2023 9:21 am

On his Samadhan Yatra, under heavy police posse, barely talks about tragedy; later says prohibition brought on popular demand

Over 200 hooch deaths in Bihar in five years since 2016 — but NCRB data shows only 23

December 18, 2022 1:43 pm

This is not an isolated discrepancy in hooch-related death data in Bihar. Cumulative NCRB data from 2016 to 2021 shows only 23 hooch deaths in Bihar — six in 2016, none in 2017, none in 2018, nine in 2019, six in 2020 and two in 2021.

Uttarakhand: Candidate distributes hooch ahead of panchayat poll, six dead

September 12, 2022 2:04 am

Pradhan candidate for Phoolgarh village, Babli, got liquor distributed in the village, police said. They arrested her husband Sunday and booked him for murder. Police are still searching for Babli and her brother Naresh.

Two cars carrying liquor bottles worth Rs 82,000 seized in Surat

August 25, 2022 12:11 am

Police, later in the day, found the car abandoned with liquor bottles in a jungle. The other car was also found abandoned and the police have launched a hunt to nab the drivers of the cars after registering a case in connection with the incident.

Suspected hooch consumption kills five in dry Bihar

May 24, 2022 5:07 pm

According to Aurangabad Superintendent of Police Kantesh Kumar Mishra, all deaths have been reported from Madanpur block.

Himachal Pradesh: Hooch tragedy toll rises to seven as two more die

January 21, 2022 6:10 am

🔴 Meanwhile, the four accused arrested in the case were produced before a court, which remanded them in in seven-day police custody.

Hooch toll 99, over 3,000 held: Illicit liquor sold at weddings, prayer meets

February 11, 2019 7:11 am

Over the last four days, officials say, the illicit liquor has killed at least 99 people — 59 in Saharanpur, 10 in Kushinagar and 30 in Haridwar, the source of the poisonous liquor, according to police.

Gorakhpur gram pradhan candidate held for hooch deaths

November 28, 2015 3:41 am

While the victims had consumed the liquor on Wednesday night, three among them died on Thursday.

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