Gujarat hooch tragedy death toll rises to 127

September 30th, 2009 THEKKADY - The death toll in the boat tragedy in Kerala's Thekkady District rose to 22 on Wednesday evening. Earlier, the toll was pegged at six persons.

July 28th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Gujarat State Assembly on Tuesday passed a Bill proposing stringent punishment up to death penalty to deal with illicit liquor trade in the follow up of the recent hooch tragedy that claimed over 130 lives in the State. The Bombay Prohibition (Gujarat Amendment) Bill 2009 was passed with a majority vote in the House.

July 17th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Crime Branch of the Gujarat Police arrested Vinod Dargi, the key accused in the Gujarat hooch tragedy, here on Friday. Police also arrested two other associates of Dargi, Ajay Thakkar and Sunil along with him.

July 16th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Renowned danseuse and social activist Mallika Sarabhai took out a march on Thursday along with several locals to voice their ire and protest against the hooch tragedy that claimed around 130 lives in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Sarabhai and family members of victims, who died after consumption of spurious liquor, led a march to the Gujarat state's Assembly to demand strict action against those guilty.

July 15th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Gujarat government on Wednesday declared that it would soon bring a new law having a provision to punish dealers of spurious liquor with seven years in imprisonment to capital punishment. The State government has come into action following wide uproar over the death of 152 people in Ahmedabad due to drinking illegally brewed liquor.

July 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress Party MPs today staged a protest against hooch tragedy in Gujarat that killed at least 130 people due to consumption of spurious liquor. Congress has alleged that a BJP Corporator of Mahemdabad Municipality was behind the hooch tragedy.

July 11th, 2009 SURAT - 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.

July 11th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Rejecting liquor baron Viajy Mallya's suggestion to rethink the state's prohibition policy, the Gujarat government said, that he should look at his liquor business and keep out of state's affairs. With the death toll of state's worst liquor tragedy nearing 130, Mallya, the owner of United Breweries, had said the enforcement of prohibition is becoming a mockery, which leads to illegal, unhygienic and unsupervised production of poisonous cocktails that claim innocent lives, and called the politicians to rethink over the prohibition policy in the interest of the people.

July 11th, 2009 AHMEDABAD J - 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.

July 10th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - 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.

July 10th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - 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 Monday and by Thursday (around105 deaths were reported.

July 9th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - With the death of 25 more people, the death toll following the consumption of spurious liquor in Ahmedabad rose to 73 on Thursday. According to police, 25 more people died during treatment at various hospitals.

May 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - With nine more people succumbing overnight, the toll in the hooch tragedy in West Bengal's East Midnapore district rose to 20 Wednesday, police said. Three people were still admitted to hospital in serious condition, an officer at the state police control room said here.

May 5th, 2009 KOLKATA - The toll in the hooch tragedy in West Bengal's East Midnapore district rose Tuesday to 11 - seven died in Tamluk and the others in city hospitals - while at least 23 were still battling for life, police said. 'At least seven people died in Tamluk itself,' East Midnapore police superintendent Pallab Kanti Ghosh told IANS.

May 5th, 2009 KOLKATA - The toll in the hooch tragedy in West Bengal's East Midnapore district has risen to eight while 23 others are battling for their life in hospitals, police said Tuesday. 'These eight people died either in the Tamluk hospital or in Kolkata's S.S.K.M.