Patna: After the hooch tragedy in Bihar`s East Champaran that has claimed 31 lives, the district police suspended SHOs of 5 police stations, an official stated on Monday. A letter on this regard was issued from the district SP workplace saying that the SHOs of Turkaulia, Sugaili, Paharpur, Harsidhi, and Raghunathpur police stations have been suspended with fast impact.
Kantesh Kumar Mishra, the SP of East Champaran district stated: “The officers of five police stations were suspected for their callous attitude. Hence, we have taken action against them and suspended them from immediate effect. We have also arrested 20 accused so far. The district police will not let anyone go scot-free.”
Meanwhile, the toll has reached 31 within the hooch tragedy that struck on Thursday. 22 folks had died by Saturday and 9 extra individuals succumbed until Monday morning. According to a police officer, 20 folks had been admitted to totally different non-public hospitals within the district. Five of them are in severe situation. Besides, eight folks have misplaced their eyesight.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday stated he’s deeply pained over the deaths within the suspected hooch tragedy at Motihari in East Champaran district, and introduced an ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh every to the following of kin of the deceased. He additional said that “He additionally stated the relations must declare that they might encourage folks to stop liquor and help prohibition legal guidelines of the state authorities. The sale and consumption of alcohol was utterly banned in Bihar in April, 2016.
Police recovered 370 liters of country-made liquor, 50 liters of spirit, and 1,150 liters of different chemical substances used within the manufacturing of spurious liquor,” the administration said in a statement on Sunday. The opposition BJP termed the hooch tragedy in Motihari as a “mass homicide by the Nitish Kumar authorities”.
Leader of Opposition within the Bihar meeting, Vijay Kumar Sinha, had on Sunday accused the state administration of “protecting liquor mafias who are associated with the ruling JD(U) and the RJD”.
The social gathering will strategy the (*31*) Human Rights Commission and different such central our bodies to conduct a “probe into the hooch tragedy”, former state BJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal stated. The Nitish Kumar authorities imposed a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol on April 5, 2016. Notably, incidents of smuggling of liquor proceed to be reported from the state, however the continuing drive in opposition to bootleggers.
(With company inputs)
