POOR AKHILESH MISSION UP 2014 IS STILL ALIVE..!!!!!!! 25 die in Azamgarh hooch tragedy TNN | Oct 19, 2013, 12.53AM IST VARANASI: As many as 25 persons lost their lives and more than 20 took ill after consuming spurious liquor in Mubarakpur area of Azamgarh district. The excise department claimed that no spurious liquor had been found in the area. Reports said a large number of people had consumed the liquor in different villages in Mubarakpur on Thursday night after which their condition started to deteriorate. They were rushed to the district hospital where 11 were reported to have been brought dead or died during treatment. The police said that only 11 deaths occurred. The chief medical officer had claimed that only 11 bodies arrived for postmortem examination. The victims belonged to different villages in Mubarakpur. Some died at home while others lost their lives at the district hospital. As condition of some of the 20 hospitalized villagers is serious, the toll is feared to rise, said CO (Sadar) Manoj Kumar Yadav. Eye-witnesses claimed to have seen 25 bodies at the district hospital and other places. However, chief medical officer, Dr BB Singh, claimed that only 11 bodies were brought for postmortem examination. P 4 The postmortem examination is on. The real picture would become clear after that, Dr Singh said. The police were investigating the matter and search is on to nab Sanjay Chauhan, the supplier of the killer brew. No person could be arrested so far in this connection. The excise department was clueless about the incident. We fail to understand how all this happened. Not a single sample of liquor consumed by the villagers had been found, excise officer Om Prakash Singh said. The officer also denied any complaint regarding the supply of illicit liquor in the area. Ironically, the political heavyweights of Samajwadi Party were ignorant about the tragedy and busy in preparations for the proposed visit of SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on October 29. A number of cabinet ministers and ministers of state along with MLAs and senior party leaders were present in Azamgarh, about 15 km away from Mubarakpur. Ministers Ambika Chaudhary, Om Prakash Singh, Durga Prasad Yadav, Balram Yadav, Wasim Ahmad, Nafis Ahmad, Ramdulare Rajbhar and many others were present in Azamgarh on Friday. They held meetings of party workers regarding the preparations for the rally of SP supremo, who will begin 2014 Lok Sabha poll campaign from Azamgarh. They also held a press conference in afternoon. When asked about the tragedy, Balram Yadav said, I came to know about the incident through local dailies. We have sympathy with the families of victims and we will do our best to help them. Later, Ramashrya Vishwakarma, chairman of UP Backward Commission, went to the village and met the families of the victims.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:17:08 +0000
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