ALIGARH: Following recent reports of many deaths because of ingestion of illegal spirits, Uttar Pradesh Police has found a spurious liquor mill in neighbouring Haryana that was in league with a liquor mafia at Aligarh district.
Almost 50 people died because of spurious spirits consumption in Aligarh lately on two unique events, whereas officials estimate that the death toll might go up to 100 since autopsy reports of the other 50 suspected hooch consumer sufferers are awaited.
Following a fortnight-long crackdown about the ancestral spirits syndicate, Aligarh authorities on Wednesday raided a premises at Gurugram in which a full-fledged illegal liquor mill was working in alliance with all the Aligarh-based spirits mafia.
Kin of Aligarh hooch tragedy require death penalty for accusedSenior superintendent of government, Kalanidhi Naithani advised that questioning of among those detained liquor mafia associates, Madangopal alias Kalia who hails from Faridabad, directed the authorities to the Gurugram mill.
“In the mill, liquor has been manufactured and packaged with plastic containers to be furnished to Aligarh and neighboring districts,” he explained.
The authorities are currently attempting to trace the system through these factories have been procuring the alcohol-based substances.
The SSP said that since the spirits disaster broke out, over 70 individuals involved with spirits trade have been detained in relation with 22 unique circumstances.
At a significant shake-up from the district authorities after both recent hooch tragedies, over 540 policemen submitted for over a couple of years in exactly the identical police station were moved for having suspected connections with all the liquor mafia.
As reported by a police officer who didn’t want to be called, it might not be”simple to trace the distribution path of uncooked industrial alcohol due to entrenched vested interests”.
“The Aligarh authorities has up to now acted with impressive alacrity in beating the liquor mafia regardless of chances,” he further added.