Haryana: Toll of poisonings due to suspected spurious liquor rises to 7
New Delhi: With the death of one more person on Thursday, seven people have now died in a suspected case of poisoning due to spurious liquor in the last three days in Yamunanagar district of Haryana, p
New Delhi: With the death of one more person on Thursday, seven people have now died in a suspected case of poisoning due to spurious liquor in Haryana’s Yamunanagar district in the last three days, police said. The deceased belonged to two villages of the district.
Police have arrested seven people in connection with the case. Two others have been arrested for allegedly producing the liquor illegally in neighboring Ambala. “Seven have died in the suspected counterfeit liquor case. The person who died today has been admitted to a hospital. He had consumed the liquor on November 7,” Yamunanagar Superintendent of Police (SP) Ganga Ram Punia told PTI over phone.
Asked about the source of the suspected spurious liquor, Punia said: “Preliminary investigation has revealed that it is illegally manufactured. A separate FIR has been registered in Mullana area of Ambala district in this regard.”
The SP said seven suspects have been arrested in the case. He said two of them are local illegal sellers and the rest are connected to illegal sales – either as sellers or for subletting the business.
The SP said most of the dead were around 45 years old or older, while two were less than 30 years old.
SHO, Mullana, Ambala district, Inspector Surender said that two persons have been arrested for illegally manufacturing liquor. “It was an old building of an abandoned factory in a remote area amidst the sugarcane fields from where the two arrested suspects were involved in the illegal act,” the SHO said.
“They were supplying this liquor in Yamunanagar district,” he said, adding further investigation was underway. The SHO said they received empty barrels, empty bottles and other items on the spot, he said. Earlier on Wednesday, SP Yamunanagar, Punia, said they had received information from a hospital about a death related to suspected spurious liquor.
The police had started an investigation and made inquiries in nearby villages. They found that three more people had been cremated on Tuesday and two more on Wednesday from two villages in Yamunanagar district. The police were treating these five cases, along with the hospital-informed cases, as suspected fake liquor poisoning incidents as they died under suspicious circumstances, the SP had said.
Families of the other five deceased people cremated the bodies without informing police and post-mortem examination could not be conducted in these deaths, he had said.