This story is from August 8, 2020

Hooch tragedy: Murder charges against kingpins

The Punjab Police on Friday arrested two of the absconders in the hooch tragedy while adding murder charges to the FIRs against all the kingpins in the case.
Hooch tragedy: Murder charges against kingpins
113 people died after consuming spurious liquor in 3 districts (File photo)
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Police on Friday arrested two of the absconders in the hooch tragedy while adding murder charges to the FIRs against all the kingpins in the case.
State police chief DGP Dinkar Gupta said on the chief minister’s directive Section 302 of IPC has been added to the FIRs against the kingpins directly responsible for the death of 113 persons in three districts.

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With the arrest of father-son duo — Harjit Singh and Shamsher Singh alias Shera of Pandori Gola — the total number of arrests in the case has gone up to 54. As of now, 37 accused are in Tarn Taran, nine in Amritsar Rural and eight in Batala. Harjit and Shamsher have also been booked on murder charges, apart from Kashmir Singh and Satnam Singh alias Satta.
Gupta said two FIRs have been registered under section 216 of IPC for harbouring criminals involved in the case and another 21 persons have been arrested in this connection. More than 887 raids have been conducted since July 31 in the three affected districts — 303 in Tarn Taran, 330 in Amritsar and 254 in Batala.
While Harjit was nabbed by Amritsar Rural police, his son Shera was apprehended by Tarn Taran police on Friday.

Meanwhile, the state-wide raids as part of the crackdown on illicit liquor are continuing with 116 more cases registered and 74 persons arrested in the past 24 hours, said the DGP. In these cases, 1,114 litres of Illicit liquor, 642 litres of licit liquor and 3,921 kgs of lahan have been seized, along with five working stills.
The total number of such cases registered since the beginning of this year are 11,141 with 10,456 persons under arrest. Recoveries in these cases stand at 1.67 lakh litres of illicit liquor, 3.86 lakh litres of licit liquor and 15.82 lakh kg of lahan, 1.84 lakh litres of English wine, 746 litres of rum and 20,113 litres of beer, 47,620 litres of spirit and 440 working stills.
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