Family running with a patient in Majitha’s government hospital.
14 people have died due to drinking poisonous liquor in Majitha area of Amritsar district in Punjab. While the condition of 6 others remains critical. All these people are admitted to the government hospital in Amritsar.
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The condition of some of them is so serious that they are not even in a position to speak. The administration fears that the number of dead may increase further.
The dead include 3 villages of Bhangali Kalan, Mardi Kalan and Jayantipur. Police and administration have come into action after the incident. Police have detained 5 people on charges of selling poisonous liquor and interrogation is on. The administration has started investigation from where and how to poisonous liquor came?
DC Sakshi Sahni arrived to meet the victim’s families.
Police started raids A woman from the victim’s family has said that her son started vomiting after drinking alcohol. Then he died on the way to the hospital. Local people say that the area of fake liquor was going on in this area for a long time, but the administration never did it strict.
Now after the death of the people, the administration has come into action and has started raiding the respective locations. After receiving the information, DC Sakshi Sahni also came to meet the victim’s families on Tuesday morning and came to know their condition. He informed that in the three villages, light symptoms are also seen, they are being admitted to the hospital.
Mastermind of fake liquor racket caught The Punjab government has taken strong action after the deaths of poisonous liquor in Majitha. The police have arrested Prabhjeet Singh, the mastermind of the fake liquor racket. SSP Maninder Singh of rural areas in Amritsar informed that a case has been registered under Section 105 BNS and 61A Excise Act.
He said that the other accused arrested include Prabhjeet’s brother Kulbir Singh alias Jaggu, Sahib Singh alias Sarai, Gurjant Singh and Ninder Kaur. The entire network is under investigation.
This fourth big case of poisonous liquor in three years This is the fourth major case of deaths from poisonous liquor in Punjab in 3 years. Earlier in 2020, more than 100 people died of poisonous liquor in Amritsar, Taran Taran and Batala, which was a major setback for Captain Amarinder Singh government at that time.
Last year, 21 people died due to drinking fake liquor in Pathankot. A woman making fake liquor was also arrested in the same case. Apart from this, such cases have also come up in Nawanshahar and Hoshiarpur.
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