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Villupuram PEW officials seize 1,200 packets of arrack from Pondy outlet
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Villupuram PEW officials seize 1,200 packets of arrack from Pondy outlet

New Indian Express  

PUDUCHERRY: Villupuram police seized 1,200 packets of arrack and a packaging machine from a licensed arrack outlet in Aandiyarpalayam near Thirubhuvanai in Puducherry on Saturday. Sources said the police, during a vehicle inspection at the Prohibition Enforcement Wing checkpost in Gengarampalayam, seized arrack packets from two men -- Arun Kumar of Asokapuri and Sivakumar of Ragavanpettai -- on Friday. A …

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Supreme Court: State Not Liable for Tax Collection At Source on Liquor Permits with Fixed Retail Price
5 months ago

Supreme Court: State Not Liable for Tax Collection At Source on Liquor Permits with Fixed Retail Price

Live Law  

The Supreme Court recently held that any vendor who buys liquor from state manufacturers without obtaining it through auction and sells in retail at a fixed price would be excluded from the definition of 'buyer' under Section 206C of the Income Tax Act. As a result of this circular, the appellant did not collect TCS from liquor vendors/ contractors Arguments …

Karnataka Retail Tax Court Natural Justice Liquor Income Tax
8-30 per cent methanol in hooch; no need for CBI probe: TN to Madras HC
5 months, 2 weeks ago

8-30 per cent methanol in hooch; no need for CBI probe: TN to Madras HC

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday told the Madras High Court that preliminary tests of samples of illicit arrack, consumed by the victims of Kallakurichi hooch tragedy, showed that they had 8.6% to 29.7% methanol composition. A status report, filed by Chief Secretary Shiv Das Meena through Additional Advocate General J Ravindran before the first bench of Acting CJ …

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Kallakurichi hooch tragedy not a sequel to 2023 tragedies in Villupuram and Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu govt. tells Madras High Court
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Kallakurichi hooch tragedy not a sequel to 2023 tragedies in Villupuram and Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu govt. tells Madras High Court

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday, July 3, 2024 told the Madras High Court that the 2024 Kallakurichi hooch tragedy cannot be considered as a sequel to the 2023 hooch tragedies at Marakkanam in Villupuram district and at Chithamur in Chengalpattu district, since the source and quantum of methanol were different. In a status report filed before the first Division …

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Tamil Nadu CM: Will amend prohibition act to curb manufacture, sale of arrack
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Tamil Nadu CM: Will amend prohibition act to curb manufacture, sale of arrack

Hindustan Times  

Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin announced on Friday that the ruling DMK will amend the Tamil Nadu Prohibition Act, 1937, to ensure stringent punishment for manufacturing and selling illicit liquor, even as the toll in the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy rose to 65 within a week. “I would like to inform this House that a bill to amend the Tamil …

Tamil Nadu Cbi Pti Dmk Kallakurichi Illicit Liquor Curb Manufacture
Ex-AIADMK Agriculture Wing Secretary Arrested for bootlegging
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Ex-AIADMK Agriculture Wing Secretary Arrested for bootlegging

New Indian Express  

SALEM: S. Sureshkumar, the former AIADMK Agriculture Wing Secretary for Attur East Union, was arrested on Saturday in connection with bootlegging activities. Sources indicate that Sureshkumar has a long history in the bootlegging business, with over 40 cases registered against him. Despite his illicit activities, he frequently visits his hometown of Attur to care for his mother, Saroja, who also …

Kallakurichi Sureshkumar
Letters to The Editor — June 25, 2024
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Letters to The Editor — June 25, 2024

The Hindu  

Toddy tapping I write this letter as a retired Dean of Kanyakumari Government Medical College, Tamil Nadu. Dr. Arunachalam, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu The state of the nation On going through newspapers and watching television, one is left with the indelible impression that we are fast moving away from a civil society. Prasad, Chennai Epic upset With their brand of attacking …

Tamil Nadu
AIADMK, NFIW members protest against sale of arrack, ganja
5 months, 4 weeks ago

AIADMK, NFIW members protest against sale of arrack, ganja

The Hindu  

Cadre of the AIADMK staged a demonstration near the Thanjavur Head Post Office condemning the DMK government for its failure to curb the illicit arrack menace. A similar demonstration was organised by the Tiruvarur AIADMK unit near the Tiruvarur Railway Junction on Friday where the participants raised slogans seeking CBI probe into the Kallakuruchi hooch tragedy. NFIW demonstration Members of …

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Kallakurichi hooch tragedy: Perambalur police carry out prohibition raids, embark on mass awareness campaigns
6 months ago

Kallakurichi hooch tragedy: Perambalur police carry out prohibition raids, embark on mass awareness campaigns

The Hindu  

The hooch tragedy in Kallakurichi district has prompted the Perambalur district police to launch a mass awareness drive to sensitise the public to the hazards of consuming illicit liqour. Split into multiple teams, police personnel visited villages under their respective jurisdiction and created awareness among the people about the dangers of consuming illicit arrack and how it could threaten their …

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Savour toddy on tap, arrack cocktails at Uncle’s in Colombo
1 year, 2 months ago

Savour toddy on tap, arrack cocktails at Uncle’s in Colombo

The Hindu  

Have to make the best of it, noh?” At Uncle’s in Colombo, when you order toddy and cheese toast, lessons for life come for free. We started making cocktails with local spirits, which in turn encouraged local producers who used to concentrate on the mass market to do more premium products,” says Gehan, settling at the bar, where — between …

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DC Edit | Hooch deaths are avoidable
1 year, 7 months ago

DC Edit | Hooch deaths are avoidable

Deccan Chronicle  

The 22 deaths that occurred in two places in coastal Tamil Nadu from a hooch tragedy last week were avoidable. The cause is, of course, people looking for a ‘kick’ through cheaper liquor than is available aplenty in the state where it flows like water. Tamil Nadu is not the only state that suffers from compulsive drinkers looking for a …

Tamil Nadu Liquor
Spurious liquor deaths in T.N. | Murder case registered; Governor Ravi seeks report
1 year, 7 months ago

Spurious liquor deaths in T.N. | Murder case registered; Governor Ravi seeks report

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu police have altered the cases relating to the deaths of 22 persons due to the consumption of spurious liquor to that of murder against 13 accused persons. The query from Raj Bhavan comes after the Tamil Nadu police claimed that the spurious liquor tragedy had nothing to do with the brewing of illicit arrack and the victims …

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Tindivanam DMK councillor’s husband detained under Goondas Act a month after arrest for possession of illicit arrack
1 year, 7 months ago

Tindivanam DMK councillor’s husband detained under Goondas Act a month after arrest for possession of illicit arrack

The Hindu  

Villupuram Collector C. Palani has ordered the detention of Maruvur Raja, 38, a DMK functionary under the Goondas Act. The Collector ordered his detention under the Goondas Act based on a request from Kallakurichi Superintendent of Police N. Mohanraj holding additional charge of Villupuram district. Shanmugam, while speaking to reporters in Villupuram shortly after news reports of Marakkanam hooch tragedy …

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Victims consumed methanol meant for industrial use, says DGP
1 year, 7 months ago

Victims consumed methanol meant for industrial use, says DGP

The Hindu  

Methanol meant for industrial use was consumed by the victims in the liquor tragedy that has so far claimed 22 lives in Villupuram and Chengalpattu districts, the police have said. As the sustained drive against the manufacture and sale of illicit arrack in Tamil Nadu stamped out the brew, the arrack sellers procured methanol from factories and sold it on, …

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15 dead and 40 hospitalised after consuming illicit arrack in Tamil Nadu
1 year, 7 months ago

15 dead and 40 hospitalised after consuming illicit arrack in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu  

Published : May 15, 2023 18:19 IST - 2 MINS READ At least 15 people died and more than 40 were admitted to hospitals in Villupuram and Puducherry on May 14-15 after consuming illicit arrack in villages in Villupuram and Chengalpattu districts in Tamil Nadu. Five individuals from the same family, including a woman, from Ekkiyarkuppam village near Marakkanam in …

Tamil Nadu Hospital Village Villupuram
Spurious liquor deaths in Tamil Nadu | With four more deaths at Marakkanam and Maduranthakam, toll rises to 17
1 year, 7 months ago

Spurious liquor deaths in Tamil Nadu | With four more deaths at Marakkanam and Maduranthakam, toll rises to 17

The Hindu  

The toll in the twin spurious liquor tragedy in Tamil Nadu rose to 17 on Monday, May 15, 2023. In the Marakkanam incident, the toll increased to 12, with the death of three more victims, who were undergoing treatment at the Government Villupuram Medical College and Hospital. Official sources said 37 persons were undergoing treatment in Villupuram, three at Jawaharlal …

Hospital Puducherry Villupuram Spurious Liquor
Palaniswami calls for stringent measures against illicit arrack
2 years, 7 months ago

Palaniswami calls for stringent measures against illicit arrack

The Hindu  

AIADMK co-coordinator Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Friday called for stringent measures against illicit arrack and spurious liquor in Chennai. In a statement, he referred to the recent arrest of three women for selling liquor in containers behind Kannagi statue on the Marina beach, and expressed his shock over the incident which, he said, took place near the DGP’s office. If …

Dmk Palaniswami Illicit Arrack
11 TDP members suspended from AP assembly for disrupting proceedings
2 years, 9 months ago

11 TDP members suspended from AP assembly for disrupting proceedings

Deccan Chronicle  

Amaravati: Eleven members of the principal opposition Telugu Desam Party were suspended from the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly for a day on Tuesday as they allegedly disrupted the proceedings of the House. A visibly irritated Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy lashed out at the TDP legislators and asked them to behave in a "civilized manner" and let the …

House Tdp Disrupting Proceedings
Kerala Abkari Act-Whether Conviction Sustainable When Independent Witnesses To Search Turned Hostile: Supreme Court To Examine
3 years ago

Kerala Abkari Act-Whether Conviction Sustainable When Independent Witnesses To Search Turned Hostile: Supreme Court To Examine

Live Law  

The Supreme Court recently agreed to examine whether conviction under Kerala Abkari Act was sustainable when independent witnesses to search turned hostile.The bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and AS Oka issued notice in the special leave petition assailing Kerala High Court's order dated June 11, 2021.In the impugned order, the High Court bench of Justice K Haripal. The Supreme Court …

Kerala Court Independent Witness Search Prosecution Act