West Bengal hooch toll rises to 20

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 12th, 2009 AHMEDABAD J - The toll in the Ahmedabad hooch tragedy has risen to 127 following fourteen more deaths. According to police, 229 people are still admitted to various city hospitals.

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 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 the official toll reaching 20 in West Bengal's hooch tragedy, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the main opposition Trinamool Congress are trying to gain poll mileage by blaming each other for the incident. The deaths occurred in East Midnapore district's Tamluk where people fell ill after consuming poisonous country-made liquor near Ramtarak Market of Mecheda in the Matangini block.

May 6th, 2009 TAMLUK - The death toll in the hooch tragedy in West Bengal is rising as more and more people fell ill. Unofficial reports say at least 24 people have died in Tamluk region while another 100 people are undergoing treatment at various hospitals.

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.

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 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - Four people died and 20 were taken ill after they consumed spurious liquor in West Bengal's East Midnapore district Monday. The tragedy occurred in the Matangini block of district headquarters Tamluk, the state police control room said.

March 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - A 18-year-old youth was seriously injured by those selling illicit liquor Sunday in a West Bengal town after he tried to protest its sale. Residents of Chamrail town of Kolkata's neighbouring Howrah district raided a local hooch outlet Saturday night.

January 26th, 2009 KOLKATA - Violence erupted in a West Bengal town Tuesday following reports that six people had died after consuming illicit liquor, but police denied anyone had fallen victim to the moonshine. Residents of Maheshtala town in South 24 Parganas ransacked illegal liquor shops and destroyed the hooch stored there as news of the alleged deaths spread.

January 10th, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Sunday took out a rally in Kolkata to protest the sale of poisonous country-made liquor that claimed several lives here last week. 'The West Bengal government should give compensation to the families of each victim who died after consuming poisonous country-made liquor at Khidirpore port area in south-west Kolkata,' Banerjee said.

January 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - The number of people who died in Kolkata after consuming poisonous country-made liquor has risen to 23, a West Bengal minister said Monday. Six people were arrested and raids conducted on illicit liquor shops in the Khidirpore port area.

January 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - People should come forward and protest against the consumption of poisonous country-made liquor, West Bengal's ruling Left Front (LF) chairman Biman Bose said Monday, as the toll in a hooch tragedy here rose to 23. 'This is a social responsibility for all of us to protest and destroy the illicit country-made liquor shops in West Bengal,' Bose told reporters here.