TIL Desk/National/Ahmedabad/The Gujarat home department on Thursday transferred the superintendents of police of Botad and Ahmedabad and suspended six other cops following the death of 42 people after consumption of spurious liquor in Hooch tragedy, an official said.
Primary investigations by the police have revealed that some small-time bootleggers of different villages in Botad district had made the spurious liquor by mixing water with methyl alcohol or methanol, a highly poisonous industrial solvent, and sold it to villagers for Rs 20 per pouch.According to the police, forensic analysis established that the victims consumed methyl alcohol.
“We have transferred Botad SP Karanraj Vaghela and Ahmedabad SP Virendrasingh Yadav. Six other police officials, including two deputy SPs, have been placed under suspension,” additional chief secretary, home, Raj Kumar, told.
Those suspended are Ahmedabad’s Dholka division Dy SP N V Patel, Botad Dy SP S K Trivedi, Ahmedabad’s Dhandhuka police station inspector K P Jadeja, Dhandhuka division’s circle police inspector S B Chaudhari and Botad sub-inspectors B G Vala and Shailendrasinh Rana.
These officials were suspended for “dereliction of duty and lack of commitment as they failed to stop the transportation, sale and consumption of liquor laced with poisonous chemicals in their respective areas,” say the suspension letters issued by the state home department.
Also read: Gujarat hooch tragedy: Death toll rises to 21, at least 30 hospitalised
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