Tamil Nadu Government has suspended 21 police personnel, including an inspector, in connection with the Saturday's hooch tragedy in a village near Dharmapuri, which claimed three lives. Inspector M Krishnan and five other personnel of the Bommidi Police station and 15 members of Harur Prohibition Enforcement Wing had been suspended on the recommendations of District Superintendent of Police Najmul Hoda, police said on Monday. Three persons died and 40 were hospitalised after drinking the killer brew in Kukkalmalai village, 35 km from Dharmapuri on Saturday in the second liquor tragedy in less than a month in the state. Forty-one people died in adjoining Krishnagiri district while over 130 people died in neighbouring Karnataka after drinking illicit liquor on May 18. The suspension of police personnel comes two day's after state ADGP (Prohibition Enforcement Wing) A R Shyam Sundar said more than 30,000 people were involved in distillation and sale of illicit arrack in Harur and Pappireddipatti areas in the district.
