(Image: For representation purpose only) Deoria, Nov 12, (UNI) Police on Friday arrested three liquor smugglers with 66 boxes of Haryana-made illicit liquor at the UP-Bihar border in Baghouchghat area of Deoria in Uttar Pradesh.A police spokesman said that the local police was carrying out vehicle checking in Pakahan market on Friday, when Pint Shahi…
ISWAI urges Maharashtra Government to continue ‘online’ home delivery of liquor to address low retail density and price arbitrage Ready to partner with the state government to build comprehensive regulations and safeguards, inculcating a practice of responsible consumption. Home delivery can enable convenience, ensure quality products, and offer a safe buying experience for women Mumbai…
In April 2016, the NDA Government led by Nitish Kumar enforced the stringent prohibition law in Bihar to make it a dry State but spurious liquor has been claiming the lives of poor people. In 2021, till October 31, 90 people, mostly from the lower strata of society, died after consuming spurious liquor and Deepavali…
Patna (Bihar) [India], November 8 (ANI): After spurious liquor claimed 32 lives in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that the government has convened a high-level meeting over the liquor ban on November 16. Addressing reporters on Monday, the chief minister said, “We have called a high-level meeting over the situation of liquor ban on…
PATNA: Twelve more persons were arrested in connection with the Gopalganj hooch tragedy in which the death toll mounted to 21 on Saturday. However, Gopalganj SP Anand Kumar confirmed only 13 deaths so far. He told TOI over phone that the postmortem of all 13 persons of Mohammadpur village under the same police station area…
The spurt in hooch tragedies in 2021 points to the failure of the alcohol ban policy in Bihar The deaths in the last few days of at least 25 people in Bihar’s Gopalganj and West Champaran districts and five in Muzaffarpur apart from several others taking ill after consuming spurious liquor points to the unintended…
Patna/UNI: Death toll due to hooch tragedy increased to 21 on Thursday with reports of eight deaths in West Champaran district while 13 people had earlier lost their lives in Gopalganj district in Bihar. As per reports reaching here from Bettiah, eight people died after consuming spurious liquor last night at Chamartoli locality in Telhua…
Prohibition is counter-productive and promotes illicit, counterfeit and unsafe products causing health hazards Bhopal : Recently there have been statements suggesting prohibition of alcohol in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The International Spirits & Wines Association of India (ISWAI), an apex body of the premium AlcoBev sector, strongly advocates that prohibition is a counter productive…
The International Spirits & Wines Association of India (ISWAI), an apex body of the premium AlcoBev sector, has strongly advocated that prohibition is a counter productive and retrograde step that will only encourage spurious, illicit and counterfeit products in the market, exposing citizens to substandard and unsafe products. Besides causing loss to the state revenues,…
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar also expressed his anguish over a recent hooch tragedy in Bihar. (File) Patna: Expressing his anguish over a recent hooch tragedy that claimed eight lives in the state, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said that the ban on alcohol is in the interest of society. The Chief Minister appealed to…