{"id":325142,"date":"2020-08-02T04:28:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T04:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325142"},"modified":"2020-08-02T04:28:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T04:28:11","slug":"death-toll-in-punjab-hooch-tragedy-rises-to-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/death-toll-in-punjab-hooch-tragedy-rises-to-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in Punjab hooch tragedy rises to 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_304184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304184\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-304184\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/lynch-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch-.jpg 1200w, 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\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-304184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The death toll in the Punjab hooch liquor tragedy continued to rise, so far 86 people have lost their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the officials, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has ordered the suspension of seven excise officials and six policemen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">63 deaths were reported from Tarn Taran district, 12 in Amritsar and 11 in Gurdaspur&#8217;s Batala, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The total number of arrests in the case has also gone up to 25, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Chief Minister also announced Rs 2 lakh ex-gratia compensation to each of the families of the deceased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Capt Amarinder Singh on July 31 ordered a magisterial enquiry into suspected spurious liquor deaths in Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran. \u201cCommissioner, Jalandhar Division will conduct the enquiry and coordinate with concerned SSPs and other officers. Anyone found guilty will not be spared,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal attacked the state government, alleging that Chief Minister Amarinder Singh was responsible for the death of more than 80 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPunjab CM Capt Amarinder is directly responsible for the death of 80 persons in the Hooch tragedy. It is he who gave a free hand to Cong MLAs to indulge in illicit liquor trade. Since the excise dept is with him he must submit his resignation imm. It is time for him to go,\u201d Badal said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Badal further said, \u201cThe magisterial inquiry ordered by CM Amarinder is a joke. A Commissioner can\u2019t be expected to indict Cong ministers and MLAs. The Congmen-police-liquor mafia nexus can only be exposed by a judicial probe headed by a sitting judge of the Pb and Haryana High Court.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe demand arrest of all Cong leaders responsible for the Hooch tragedy. If this is not done it will be clear that the CM is hand in glove with them. SAD expresses condolences with bereaved families &amp; demands each family be given Rs 25 L compensation &amp; a govt job,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll in the Punjab hooch liquor tragedy continued to rise, so far 86 people have lost their lives. According to the officials, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has ordered the suspension of seven excise officials and six policemen. 63 deaths were reported from Tarn Taran district, 12 in Amritsar and 11 in Gurdaspur&#8217;s Batala, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[10816,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325142"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325143,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325142\/revisions\/325143"}],"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=325142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}