Spurious liquor kills at least 90 people in India

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Around 10 policemen in Saharanpur were also suspended in the case, according to the excise department.
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered strict action in the matter. The government is preparing to set up a National Security Act (NSA) on poisonous liquor makers and sellers.
The police said that the victims consumed liquor during two customary functions on Thursday night, adding that the post-mortem and initial forensic reports suggested that the brew was laced with methanol.
The majority of the deaths were reported from the village of Balpur in Uttarakhand.
Deaths from illegally brewed alcohol are common in India because the poor cannot afford licensed brands. The liquor is usually made with poor-quality ingredients and sometimes mixed with industrial alcohol and toxic substances to increase potency.
In some of the worst cases of such poisoning, 200 people died in 1992 in Odisha state, 180 in West Bengal in 2011 and 100 in the city of Mumbai in 2015.
Illicit liquor has also become a hugely profitable industry across India where bootleggers pay no taxes and sell enormous quantities of their product to poor at a cheap rate.
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