Bhabhua: Three persons have died while two others were taken ill, one of them seriously, after consuming suspected spurious liquor in Kaimur district of Bihar. Sale and consumption of alcohol in Bihar was banned by the Nitish Kumar government in April 2016.
The incident was reported from Kurasan village under Bhabhua police station on Thursday evening.
The deceased have been identified as Lalu Bind (42) and Ram Kesri Kohar (50).
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Tahid, a villager told ETV Bharat, "Liquor is available in the village and when police carry out raids, people hide. Six people consumed spurious liquor and I brought all the victims to the hospital."
Bhabhua Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Sunita Kumari said that she would be able to say anything only after getting the post-mortem report of the deceased persons.
Local people say that it's not known whether the suspected spurious liquor was made locally or was imported from somewhere else.
Notably, the state government had on April 5, 2016 banned the manufacture, trade, storage transportation, sale, consumption of liquor including IMFL in the state and made it a punishable offence for those violating the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act 2016 which was amended in 2018.
With PTI inputs
