Satish Aditya
Bettiah : West Champaran DM Kundan Kumar on July 16, 2021, said that an inquiry by Excise and Police is on into the deaths allegedly due to consumption of hooch on July 15, 2021, evening, reported from few villages under Lauriya and Ramnagar blocks in the district. Eight cases of deaths allegedly due to consumption of spurious country liquor were reported on July 15, 2021. Some others were reported to be receiving medical treatment.
DM Kundan Kumar said, ” We knocked every door on July 15, 2021, night, at these these villages and talked to the local residents to know the facts.” Talking to mediapersons, the DM said that he and SP K G Yadav visited the house of deceased Rasul Mian at village Bagahi and a person of Deorawa village and talked to their family members but they denied consumption of liquor by their family members and sad they were not keeping well for a reasonable time. They also showed documents relating to their medical treatment.
One Mumtaz of Deorawa village was found admitted at a nursing home at Bettiah and his brother admitted that his condition deteriorated after he consumed spurious liquor on July 15 night and also named an accused, a co-villager, who had supplied the liquor. Police immediately registered a case in this connection and detained 4 persons involved in the racket.They are being quizzed. Medical teams have been deployed at the villages concerned to ensure treatment of anyone found ill.
The DM said that six cases of death are under investigation by probe teams and and appropriate action would be initiated if it was found that the deaths took place due to consumption of hooch.