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

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

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …