PATNA: Hooch death spree continues in Bihar dried with at least four fresh death surfaced from three different villages under the panchayat Rupauli Patori region police station in Samastipur district on Saturday.
Deaths have occurred one after another until midnight Friday but authorities have received instructions on Hooch poisoning by 07:00 on Saturday.
At least 13 people in Gopalganj and 16 people in bettiah in West Champaran has ‘officially’ died due to consumption of poisonous hooch from Wednesday.
Victims in bettiah remains the same but increased to 13 in Gopalganj on Saturday with fresh death.
Overall death count in three incidents stood at 33 until Saturday night.
Bihar: Toll rises to 26 in Gopalganj and West Champaran incidentsThe Hooch poisoning recently made an ugly scenario of continuous Hooch death has put a ban on state government policies in the dock with almost no soil effectiveness to stop smuggling liquor.
In less than a month, at least 54 people have been reported killed in five incidents Hooch including Samastipur.
Now overall at least 107 people have lost their lives till now since January this year in 16 separate incidents Hooch.
These figures include even those whose bodies were cremated without informing the police and get a post-mortem performed.
people who died in Samastipur this time not only the villagers but includes the Border Security Force sub-inspector Vinay Kumar Singh (55) were sent in Jammu and Army personnel Jagannath Rai (28), installed in Delhi.
Two of the other dead man was Shyam Nandan Choudhary (52) and Veerchandra Rai (27).
Vinay and Veerchandra from the village Rupauli Chaksima, Jagannath of Bhagwaanpur Chaksima and Shyamnandan of Sangrampur.
They are sick and undergoing treatment is Yaduvansh Rai and Deepak Singh.
Both hail from Rupauli Chaksima.
Yaduvansh are under treatment in Samastipur Sadar hospital while Deepak is undergoing treatment at AIIMS-Patna.
Jagannath was rushed to a military hospital in Danapur, Patna on Friday night after falling ill but died later.
When asked, Samastipur SP Manavjit Singh Dhillon told TOI over the phone that the police especially with the assumption that these deaths were of consumption of poisonous hooch.
“There is no other reason that seen before the police for the deaths and illnesses.
Police have recovered several small IMFL bottles of the liquor is consumed, “he said.
He said it appeared the toxic IMLF manufactured and packaged in bottles for smuggling.
“The label is inserted in a bottle seems fake as misspellings dari’Bengaluru’dicetak on it,” said SP.
He said police have been able to obtain a post-mortem of the three people died performed as members of the family of the deceased has been cremated fourth Veerchandra body rush on late Friday night.
“All the family members tried to cover up the death of poisoned liquor consumption.
They kept citing food poisoning and other reasons behind the deaths, but later it became clear that they all had consumed liquor, “said Dhillon.
SP Dhillon said that the villagers had consumed liquor on the night of November 3 and 4 November “bottles of liquor purchased from a general store and milk Rupauli owner of the booth,” he said.
He said the two evade capture.
“Separate teams are working to capture them.
Currently, medical surveys door-to-door from the entire panchayat being made so that each sick person can be rushed for treatment, “the SP said, adding they were under treatment which is completely stable.
Patori police station SHO Mukesh Kumar said that the personnel of the Army have reached the village on October 22 to attend the last rites of his aunt.
“The BSF SI has reached home on November 2 for Diwali vacation,” he said.
SHO Kumar said that a police team had noticed a crowd at the hospital Patori sub-division on Friday night.
“Vijay was taken there but she had died.
Tim police asked the family members of the reasons behind their deaths cited diseases.
The team asked them to get a post-mortem carried out but they have refused, “he said.
SHO said that later when more deaths revealed by Saturday morning, the investigation cleared that Vinay is also consumed liquor.