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Ahmedabad, Aug 31 (ANI): The police detained at least seven women for selling illicit liquor known as hooch in local parlance that recently claimed three lives in Gujarat.

Two breathed their last on Friday while one more person died on Saturday after consuming drinks laced with [...]

Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Aug 29(ANI): Ahmedabad Police on Saturday clarified that two people who died on Friday, died due to consumption of drinks having chemical content.

Police has dismissed assumption that they were victims of country-made liquor known as ‘hooch’, and said that the Forensic Science Laboratory report confirmed that they took a substance having chemicals. [...]

Ahmedabad, Aug 29 (ANI): Ahmedabad police recovered the bodies of two persons who died after allegedly consuming illicit liquor on Friday.

Three other persons are undergoing treatment at the hospital.

Relatives of victims accused the government of not taking steps to prevent the vending of illicit liquor.

“My father was complaining of a headache so I asked [...]

Surat, July 11 (ANI): Members of Sakhi Mandal, a women’s group in Gujarat’s Surat district, destroyed liquor dens.

They burnt all material and spurious liquor kept in drums launching their drive against liquor barons on Saturday.

The drive followed death of over 122 persons in a [...]

Ahmedabad July 11 (ANI): The toll in Ahmedabad hooch tragedy has rises to 122after nine more deaths were reported.

The police said that now 122 people have died and 227 were admitted to various city hospitals. The city is witnessing deaths from spurious liquor since last five days.

The Crime Branch, of the Gujarat Police is investigating [...]

Ahmedabad, July 10 (ANI): Schools and colleges remained closed in Ahmedabad in Gujarat on Friday as a mark of protest over the death of around 105 people due to consumption of spurious liquor.

Cases of people dying after consuming spurious liquor were reported on [...]

Ahmedabad, July 10 (ANI): The Gujarat hooch tragedy death toll has risen to 103.

According to police, the number of fatalities could go up as about 200 people are still undergoing treatment.he new cases were reported from Odhav, Amaraiwadi, Rakhial and Raipur.

On Thursday night, Gujarat Police rounded up over 800 bootleggers and sealed scores of illicit [...]

Ahmedabad, July 9 (ANI): With the death of 17 more people, the death toll following the consumption of spurious liquor in Ahmedabad rose to 65 on Thursday.

According to police, 17 more people died during treatment at various hospitals. Several are still undergoing treatment. he new cases were reported from Odhav and Amaraiwadi during the [...]

Tamluk (Kolkata), May 6 (ANI): The death toll in the hooch tragedy in West Bengal is rising as more and more people fell ill.

Unofficial reports say at least 24 people have died in Tamluk region while another 100 people are undergoing treatment at various hospitals. But officials said only 11 died and 30 were [...]

Tamluk (West Bengal), May 5 (ANI): At least 20 people died and more than 134 fell seriously ill after consuming illicit liquor in Tamluk region of West Bengal.

The victims were taken to Tamluk Government Hospital, and 14 of them were said to be critical.

Other victims might be shifted to Kolkata to get proper treatment.

Angered [...]

Another person died in Raghuvir Nagar on Wednesday taking raising the toll in the hooch tragedy to 17 even as the police cracked the whip on the spurious liquor mafia. The Delhi Police action comes after 34 hooch deaths in one month.
After the Dabri tragedy, the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police will now take [...]

New Delhi, Apr 6 (ANI): A group of people shouted slogans and set objects on fire outside a police booth in the Rajouri Garden area of West Delhi on Monday to express their rage on the deaths, which have taken place due to consumption [...]

Pune, Mar 17 (ANI): Armed with sticks, women took to the streets in Pune and destroyed illicit liquor shops.

Scores of women attacked two shops and set fire to barrels of illicit liquor.

Dhankawadi area, where the incident took place, has been reportedly supplying hooch to Pune for years.

The women took law into their hands [...]