ALIGARH: Eleven people died on Friday plus a few more were taken sick after allegedly consuming spurious liquor sold by a qualified seller , a senior officer said.
A time-bound magisterial inquiry was ordered that will be run through an extra district magistrate-rank officer, District Magistrate Chandra Bhushan Singh told media people.
The government is very likely to emphasise the NSA against individuals found guilty at the query, ” he explained.
Earlier in the afternoon, DIG Dipak Kumar stated that the Lodha police station had been educated in the afternoon about the departure of 2 individuals after ingestion of countrymade liquor purchased from a seller in Karsia.
The sufferers were truck drivers who’d accumulated at a petrol depot around the Aligarh-Tapaal street to get work, ” he explained.
But when authorities and older district officials reached the place, they had been advised that six people belonging to both Karsia and adjacent villages had expired, the DIG said, adding that authorities teams were hurried to the region and the bodies shipped for post-mortem assessment.
The DM said information about other folks who had swallowed spirits purchased from precisely the identical seller is trickling in.
Talking to PTI, Deputy Commissioner, Excise, D Sharma explained a number of the taken ill were hurried to the district hospital and from that point, shifted into the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital, AMU, afterwards.
He explained the liquor vend was sealed and trials are collected for testing.
According to natives, folks had begun falling ill from Thursday.
Some others from nearby villages had consumed the spirits, they included.