Death toll in Punjab’s Sangrur spurious liquor case rises to 20, SIT formed

“The SIT will go to the bottom of the conspiracy. No person found involved will be spared,” police said.The district administration has already formed a five-member committee, led by the Dirba sub-divisional magistrate, to investigate the matter.The police had earlier recovered 200 litres of ethanol, 156 bottles of alcohol, 130 bottles containing suspected spurious liquor with labelling, 80 bottles containing spurious liquor without labelling, 4,500 empty bottles and a bottling machine etc.The police had said with the arrests made until Thursday it had busted a gang which had just started selling spurious liquor in the area in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.The gang could have affected the conduct of the elections by luring the voters, the police had said in a statement.A survey was also being conducted in the affected villages to find out if anyone else reported symptoms of deterioration in health.



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