hooch-arrest woman behind hooch tragedy arrested

Seventeen people, including a woman, had died afterconsuming illicit liquor supplied from her house at kalluvathukkal in the worst hooch tragedy in recent Times, which had so far claimed 29 lives since saturday night in three places in kollam district.

Hairunnisa, who is serving a six-year prison term fordealing in illicit liquor in 1996, is now on bail. She had been absconding since saturday night, police said.