MYSURU: With the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy still fresh in the minds of people, the Karnataka Excise Department has swung into action, conducting surprise raids along the state’s border with Tamil Nadu. The Karnataka Excise Department raided some houses in a few villages in the state along the Tamil Nadu border on suspicion that a few residents were manufacturing spurious liquor. …
Chennai: V Senthil Balaji, Tamil Nadu minister for electricity, prohibition and excise, is in the eye of a storm with the death toll in twin hooch tragedies rising to 22 and BJP’s state president K Annamalai calling for his removal, a day after the Supreme Court allowed the Enforcement Directorate to continue proceedings against him in the alleged cash-for-job scam. …
Tamil Nadu Hooch Tragedy: The hooch incident in Tamil Nadu has taken a dramatic turn as the police on Tuesday claimed that the tragedy that struck Ekkiyarkuppam and Perunkaranai villages was due to the consumption of methanol and not due to spurious liquor. Methanol, not spurious liquor behind the tragedy The police on Tuesday informed that methanol, a deadly concoction …
