Bootleg Liquor

A dozen Indonesians died and four were in critical condition after drinking illegal bootleg liquor, authorities said today, the latest deaths caused by home-made alcohol in the Muslim-majority country.

The Delhi government Monday opposed the pleas challenging its decision prohibiting any discount or rebate on the MRP of liquor in the national capital and told the Delhi High Court that this was giving rise to bootlegging activity.

A woman who helped the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) and police to bust an illicit liquor racket in outer Delhi's Narela, was allegedly beaten and her clothes torn by other women of the locality who apparently were involved in bootlegging, police said.

A multi-crore enterprise to smuggle alcohol into dry Gujarat from the centrally-administered Daman district has been busted by the Enforcement Directorate. Ramesh Patel, alleged to be the couple behind the racket, is on the run. But the agency has seized bottles worth over 2.5 crores in his warehouses and found papers that suggest he had recently s...

With Madhya Pradesh announcing phased prohibition of alcohol, liquour manufacturer United Spirits on Monday said ban on spirits gives rise to other social ills like illicit alcohol, bootlegging and crime.

The death toll in the hooch tragedy today climbed to 33 and more than two dozen people were battling for life after consuming spurious liquor in Etah and Farrukhabad districts even as the authorities launched a crackdown on bootlegging arresting 1,621 people across Uttar Pradesh.

Twelve Indonesian men have died after drinking bootleg liquor, police said today, the latest deaths in the Muslim-majority country caused by homemade alcohol.

Investigators said a majority of the victims died after purchasing home-made liquor from a couple in Sleman, a town north of Yogyakarta city, local police said.

The death toll in Turkey from drinking bootleg liquor has risen to 18 after six more people died in hospital over the past two days, state media said today.

Eight people have died in the past four days and another 19 are in critical condition in hospital after drinking bootleg alcohol in Istanbul, Turkish media reports said today.

Toxic homemade liquor has killed nearly 100 slum dwellers in Mumbai, and nearly 45 people are in hospital after the mass alcohol poisoning, said the police.

Five Ecuadoran youths died Friday after drinking bootleg liquor while apparently celebrating their country's World Cup win over Honduras, authorities said Saturday.

The possibility of cheap 'taste-alikes' being packaged and sold in bottles of high-end brands this New Year's has been thrown up again with the arrest of three bootleggers on Thursday. They possessed more than 300 such bottles and were in the process of packaging more when they were busted.Acting on a tip-off, the state excise department swooped do...

A dozen Indonesians died and four were in critical condition after drinking illegal bootleg liquor, authorities said today, the latest deaths caused by home-made alcohol in the Muslim-majority country.

The Delhi government Monday opposed the pleas challenging its decision prohibiting any discount or rebate on the MRP of liquor in the national capital and told the Delhi High Court that this was giving rise to bootlegging activity.

A woman who helped the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) and police to bust an illicit liquor racket in outer Delhi's Narela, was allegedly beaten and her clothes torn by other women of the locality who apparently were involved in bootlegging, police said.

A multi-crore enterprise to smuggle alcohol into dry Gujarat from the centrally-administered Daman district has been busted by the Enforcement Directorate. Ramesh Patel, alleged to be the couple behind the racket, is on the run. But the agency has seized bottles worth over 2.5 crores in his warehouses and found papers that suggest he had recently s...

With Madhya Pradesh announcing phased prohibition of alcohol, liquour manufacturer United Spirits on Monday said ban on spirits gives rise to other social ills like illicit alcohol, bootlegging and crime.

The death toll in the hooch tragedy today climbed to 33 and more than two dozen people were battling for life after consuming spurious liquor in Etah and Farrukhabad districts even as the authorities launched a crackdown on bootlegging arresting 1,621 people across Uttar Pradesh.

Twelve Indonesian men have died after drinking bootleg liquor, police said today, the latest deaths in the Muslim-majority country caused by homemade alcohol.

Investigators said a majority of the victims died after purchasing home-made liquor from a couple in Sleman, a town north of Yogyakarta city, local police said.

The death toll in Turkey from drinking bootleg liquor has risen to 18 after six more people died in hospital over the past two days, state media said today.

Eight people have died in the past four days and another 19 are in critical condition in hospital after drinking bootleg alcohol in Istanbul, Turkish media reports said today.

Toxic homemade liquor has killed nearly 100 slum dwellers in Mumbai, and nearly 45 people are in hospital after the mass alcohol poisoning, said the police.

Five Ecuadoran youths died Friday after drinking bootleg liquor while apparently celebrating their country's World Cup win over Honduras, authorities said Saturday.

The possibility of cheap 'taste-alikes' being packaged and sold in bottles of high-end brands this New Year's has been thrown up again with the arrest of three bootleggers on Thursday. They possessed more than 300 such bottles and were in the process of packaging more when they were busted.Acting on a tip-off, the state excise department swooped do...