Lagatar24 Desk
Gujarat, July 26: There have already been 19 fatalities in Gujarat’s Botad district as a result of the consumption of illegal or poisonous alcohol.
16 residents of the Botad district have already passed away, according to the police control room there. Since Monday, five patients from the neighbouring Ahmedabad district’s Dhandhuka taluka have also passed away while receiving medical care.
According to officials, some 30 patients are still receiving care at several public hospitals in Bhavnagar, Botad, Barvala, and Dhandhuka.
The police have detained three people from the Botad area who were reportedly involved in producing and marketing the fake country-made booze, according to Gujarat Director General of Police Ashish Bhatia.
The situation was discovered early on Monday when some residents of Rojid village in Barvala taluka and other nearby villages were sent to the public hospitals in Barvala and Botad towns when their health began to worsen.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) led by a deputy superintendent of police would be constituted to look into the event and apprehend the bootleggers who sold the fake alcohol, according to Inspector General of Police (Bhavnagar region) Ashok Kumar Yadav.
The Ahmedabad crime branch and the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) have also joined the probe.
