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Guj hooch tragedy: Death toll rises to 111

The death toll in the hooch tragedy rose to 111 on Friday with the police rounding up scores of bootleggers and sealing liquor dens state-wide. The number of fatalities could go up as about 190 people are still undergoing treatment. The new cases were reported from Odhav, Amaraiwadi, Rakhial a ....Read more

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What for protests?By: ilarum | Friday , 10 Jul '09 17:00:46 PM Reply | Forward Sir, why people are protesting for Hooch deaths? Who told them consume alchahol in the land of Gandhiji, wherein prohibition imposed (the only state in India). Instead of say sorry to the nation for their weakness for liquor addiction, why people are going berserk and damage public property. This happend becuase of morally corrupted contractors and consumers. As usal, congress MLAs making hue and cry as Modi himself served the liquor to those people. In Bihar, Delhi, North eastern States, Southern States, this type of tragedies are very common. Is there any political ploy playing by Congees to destablize BJP Govt.? May be....

Ms.By: Neelima Sharma | Friday , 10 Jul '09 16:54:58 PM Reply | Forward The bubble of Gujarat 'gaurav'and 'asmita' has suddenly burst. The real culprits are not the poisonous booze-makers but forces who kept on patronizing these criminals. This is high time that we investigate the role of VHP and Bajrang Dal in patronizing these nefarious liquor dens and minting enormous money. The above two organizations claimed to have committees through out Gujarat at city/locality/street to keep eye on anti-Hindu forces. If despite this kind of vigilance illegal liquor dens were flourishing this must have been with the connivance of the above organizations. There is immediate need to bring to justice the real culprits.

Home Minister must follow the precedent and resign right nowBy: DivyeshRaythatha | Friday , 10 Jul '09 16:41:30 PM Reply | Forward Home Minister Amit Shah got to accept his responsibility and RESIGN. There is no prohibition on liquor, there is no law and order, crime rate is raising continuously, suicidal cases due to pressure fom money lenders' pressure has become everyday affair, there is no safety of women in the state, education is very poor and comparable to lowest five states in the country.

Gujarat Govt. should seriously review liquor ban By: Ashok | Friday , 10 Jul '09 16:21:41 PM Reply | Forward Since years similar tragic incidents have been reported in Gujarat proving that the so called liquor ban is on paper only.Also many incidents in several cities/villages of people getting caught drunk confirm this.Therefore the Government should now consider to review lifting liquor ban so that the State Government may get benefitted by earning annual tax revenue of about Rs.4000 crores which now is flowing away in in appropriate hands.Besides people are mislead into buying cheap spurious liquor which lead to such hooch tragedy.Liquor ban has also made the police more corrupt and inefficient.Gandhiji was called Nations Father -and the states apart from Gujarat have chosen not to be hypocrite and corrupt and thus have permitted sale of liquor in their states.People of Gujarat thus expects from popular state government bold initiative to break away from old liquor ban practice giving rise to corruption and hooch tragedies and start sale of liquor.

This is murderBy: Jayadevan | Friday , 10 Jul '09 11:32:42 AM Reply | Forward No one has ever died just because he or she drank alcohol, legal or not. Talking in the short term. The belief that bootleggers use all sorts of substances in the manufacture of alcohol and THAT proves lethal is incorrect. What happens is that methylated spirit (ethyl alcohol in which methyl alcohol has been mixed to render it poisonous (revenue reasons, no morality involved)) is mixed with the hooch because it is cheap and available in large quantities. This proves immediately lethal when the proportion of methylated spirit to hooch increases beyond a very low level - proportions being decided by the greed in the mind of the mixer, who knows perfectly well that he is poisoning his consumer. This is murder. And has to be treated as murder. Prohibition or not, this is bound to happen, when the pursuit of profit to any extent is deemed legitimate. Ahmedabadi builders who caused hundreds of deaths in 2001 got away. So why such an uproar now? Hafta not paid on time?