At least ten individuals died and more than twelve others were critically hospitalized after consuming toxic, adulterated spurious liquor in rural settlements across Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district, triggering emergency multi-state police raids along the Uttar Pradesh border on Sunday.
The victims, primarily daily-wage laborers and agricultural workers from three adjacent villages in the Rahatgarh administrative block, reported severe abdominal agony, vomiting, and sudden vision impairment within hours of consuming cheap illicit alcohol purchased from local bootleggers. Medical superintendents at Bundelkhand Medical College confirmed that chemical autopsies revealed lethal concentrations of industrial methanol in the victims’ bloodstream.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav ordered the immediate suspension of the district excise officer and regional police station in-charge for dereliction of supervisory duty. The state government announced ex-gratia financial assistance of four lakh rupees to the next of kin of each deceased victim and established a specialized administrative inquiry committee.
Special task force squads from Madhya Pradesh teamed up with Uttar Pradesh police to execute coordinated dawn raids across clandestine distillation dens operating along the forested border of Lalitpur and Jhansi. Enforcement teams seized over eight thousand liters of illicit fermented wash, hundreds of bottles of chemical denaturants, and arrested six key distributors.
Community women’s groups staged angry demonstrations outside local administrative offices, demanding an outright ban on illegal hooch trade and permanent closure of unlicensed liquor shops in rural districts. Healthcare teams launched door-to-door medical surveys across affected villages to identify any other villagers exhibiting early poisoning symptoms.
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