At least 31 people died and 20 others were hospitalized in serious condition after allegedly drinking tainted liquor sold without authorization in eastern India.
A July 26, 2022 file photo shows a man who fell ill after consuming tainted bootleg liquor being brought for treatment to a hospital in Ahmedabad, India. — At least 31 people died and 20 others were hospitalized in serious condition after allegedly drinking tainted liquor sold without authorization in eastern India, a top elected official said Thursday.
A doctor tends to a patient sickened by tainted bootleg liquor at a hospital in Jorhat, in northeast India's Assam state, in a February 23, 2019 file photo. are common in India, where illicit liquor is cheap and often spiked with chemicals such as pesticides to increase potency. Illicit liquor has also become a hugely profitable industry across India, where bootleggers pay no taxes and sell enormous quantities of their product to the poor at a cheap rate.
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