Villupuram: The toll within the twin hooch tragedies in Villupuram and Chengalpet districts rose to 20 on Tuesday. According to the police, the 2 separate incidents of spurious liquor deaths had been reported within the north zone of Tamil Nadu. 13 deaths have been reported in Villupuram and seven in (*20*), the police stated.
In this connection, a person recognized as Amaran has been arrested and spurious liquor seized from his possession has been despatched to the lab to establish the presence of methanol in it, police stated. On Sunday chief minister Stalin introduced Rs 10 lakh to every of the households of the deceased and in addition introduced a compensation of Rs 50,000 every to these hospitalized.
He additionally directed the authorities involved to present particular remedy to those that are hospitalized on this incident. He additionally stated that the federal government is taking strict measures to curb illicit liquor and narcotics.
“As per the forensic report, it was found that those alcohols not for human consumption and those are industry usable methanol poisonous alcohol,” DGP Sylendra Babu stated on Tuesday. The spurious liquor seized from Ekkiyarkuppam Village of Marakkanam, Villupuram districts, was despatched for forensics
“In the Villupuram incident, Amaran was arrested. Investigating him, it was found that he brought the spurious liquor from Muthu and Muthu said he brought it from Pondicherry Elumazlai,” he additional stated.
The DGP stated that the spurious liquor that prompted the tragedy in each districts was introduced from the identical place and the identical particular person. “Similarly, Ammavasai has been arrested who offered spurious liquor in Chithamoor, Perunkaranai, and Perambakkam. Ammavasai additionally took these spurious liquor and acquired remedy on the hospital. During the interrogation, he stated that he introduced spurious liquor from Velu and his brother Chandhiran.
Meanwhile, after they had been inquired they stated that they introduced liquor from Panayur- Rajesh and he stated that he introduced spurious liquor from Vilampur Viji. Vilambur Viji stated spurious liquor was introduced from Pondicherry,” he added.
Earlier, the police had stated that there was no proof discovered of a hyperlink between the 2 incidents. He additionally stated that within the yr 2022 – 1,40,649 circumstances have been registered in reference to Spurious Liquor and 1,39,697 accused have been arrested.
“37,217 liters of spurious liquor has been seized and 2,957 vehicles have been seized which was used for smuggling spurious liquor,” he added. Likewise, based on the official, this yr 2023, 55,414 circumstances have been registered and 55,173 accused have been arrested in reference to Spurious Liquor.
So far 2,55,078 spurious liquor has been seized. 69 automobiles have been seized which had been used for smuggling spurious liquor. 79 accused have been arrested below Gundas act,” the official said. “As in Tamil Nadu, manufacturing of spurious liquor has been managed loads and smuggling from different states can also be being monitored, within the state of affairs one cannot discover spurious liquor few stole toxic spurious liquor from industries and offered that. Because of that this untoward incident has occurred. From which business the toxic spurious liquor got here and hyperlinks to which might be below investigation,” the DGP stated.
