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Bihar: Empty liquor bottles found in Collectorate premises in Samastipur
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Empty liquor bottles were found in the Collectorate premises in Samastipur on Tuesday. The recovery came in the backdrop of a wave of deaths in the Chhapra district linked to spurious liquor.
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Supreme Court to hear plea seeking SIT probe in Bihar's Chhapra hooch trag
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a petition on January 9 seeking an independent and SIT probe in Chhapra, Bihar hooch tragedy that has claimed over 40 lives so far.
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"Strict action will be taken": Bihar CM on all involved in Chhapra hooch t
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
"How and why this tragedy occurred? Who did it? Who supplied the spurious liquor in the state? Everything is being investigated," said Nitish Kumar.
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Bihar hooch tragedy accused nabbed from New Delhi
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Ram Babu Mahto was one of the key players in the Chhapra hooch episode He fled Bihar after police launched a search operation.
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Bihar hooch tragedy: 5 including mastermind arrested; homoeopathic medicin
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Police said the arrested people used to manufacture spurious liquor from chemicals and sugar in homoeopathic medicines.
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Opposition slams govt for using Bihar liquor deaths for "political mileage
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Opposition parties in parliament through a joint statement on Tuesday slammed the Centre, accusing it of using the deaths by spurious liquor in Bihar for "political mileage" and sending teams of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to non-BJP ruled states with intent to destabilize go
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Chhapra: Police launch Operation 'Clean Drive' in wake of hooch deaths
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Amid the hooch deaths in Bihar's Chhapra, with the toll currently at 72, the Saran Police on Monday launched Operation 'Clean Drive' against the sale and consumption of alcohol in the state.
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Chhapra locals told me nearly 200 have died due to spurious liquor: Union
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Union Minister RK Singh on Monday accused the Bihar government of hiding the death toll in the Saran hooch tragedy and said that the locals have informed him that nearly 200 people died in the district.
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BJP doing politics on spurious liquor deaths in Saran: JDU president Lalan
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Janata Dal-United (JD-U) national president and Lok Sabha MP Rajeev Ranjan alias Lalan Singh on Monday said that BJP is doing politics on the Hooch tragedy in Bihar's Saran and the death toll due to spurious liquor in Saran given by the administration is genuine and if the BJP says the numbe
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Hooch tragedy: Raids being conducted to arrest all accused, says Bihar Exc
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
"Raids are being conducted at various places so that all accused and non-FIR accused can be nabbed, especially the supplier and manufacturer. As per evidence found so far, we're also awaiting the postmortem report. We'll then take further action," said Sunil Kumar.
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NHRC "independently" decided to probe Chhapra hooch tragedy: Nityanand Rai
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
As the death toll in Bihar's Chhapra due to the consumption of spurious liquor mounted to 72, Union Minister Nityanand Rai on Sunday accused the state government of "hiding" the actual number.
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Bihar: 5 officials suspended in Chapra hooch tragedy
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
In the wake of the Chapra hooch tragedy, due to the consumption of spurious liquor, in Bihar's Saran district, the Saran Superintendent of Police (SP) has taken significant action in the case.
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