Dark Diwali in dry Bihar as hooch claims 26 more lives
Abhay Mohan Jha & Debashish Karmakar TNN
Bettiah/Patna: 06.11.2021
Diwali in the adjoining districts of West Champaran and Gopalganj, in Bihar, was darkened by back-toback hooch tragedies in which 26 people have died since Wednesday after consuming spurious liquor.
Among them,16 people from Dakshini Telua village and surrounding hamlets under Nautan police station area of West Champaran died on Thursday, Diwali eve, while the death toll at Mohammadpur, in Gopalganj district, rose to 10 on Friday. However, the official death toll was 23. Sources said the number could be as high as 35 dead as the family members of several deceased had cremated the bodies fearing police action. Twenty-two people have been arrested in connection with the twin hooch tragedies.
So far, 92 people have lost their lives in 15 hooch tragedies in the state since January this year. CM Nitish Kumar held a high-level meeting on Friday with senior home and police officials and ordered them to launch a crackdown on those involved in manufacturing and smuggling liquor. Bihar has been a dry state since April 2016.
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