{"id":309190,"date":"2019-02-10T11:01:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T11:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309190"},"modified":"2019-02-10T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T11:01:46","slug":"death-toll-in-up-hooch-tragedy-climbs-to-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/death-toll-in-up-hooch-tragedy-climbs-to-104\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in UP hooch tragedy climbs to 104"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/lucknow-junior-doctor-probed-in-vyapam-scam-dies-in-hospital\/lynch\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-304184\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304184 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/lynch--300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--696x348.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--1068x534.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--840x420.jpg 840w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch-.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a>The death toll in Uttar Pradesh hooch tragedy has climbed to 104, on Sunday, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the victims had attended a funeral in\u00a0neighbouring\u00a0Balupur, Haridwar, and had consumed liquor there. They fell ill thereafter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The death toll in Saharanpur district rose to 54, whereas 32 deaths were reported from Haridwar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Raids have been conducted in various parts of the state and a large quantity of illicit liquor was seized. Police have arrested over 200 people in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moreover, the state government has suspended the District Excise Officer and District Excise Inspector of Kushinagar, among many others.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll in Uttar Pradesh hooch tragedy has climbed to 104, on Sunday, officials said. According to the sources, the victims had attended a funeral in\u00a0neighbouring\u00a0Balupur, Haridwar, and had consumed liquor there. They fell ill thereafter. The death toll in Saharanpur district rose to 54, whereas 32 deaths were reported from Haridwar. Raids have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015,2914],"tags":[10823,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309191,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309190\/revisions\/309191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}