On Friday, at least 12 people were killed after drinking artificial liquor in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur and Kushinagar districts. Taking cognition of the matter, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked to provide immediate medical help to the victims. He has also announced a compensation of Rs two lakh each to the family of the deceased and Rs 50,000 each to the victims undergoing treatment in the hospital.

However, CM Adityanath has instructed Chief Secretary Excise Joint operation and Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) to take strict action against those responsible. He has asked to initiate departmental action against District Excise Officers. UP CM also directed the state's DGP to take stock of the situation and fix responsibility of the police in two districts where several deaths due to spurious liquor were reported.

In a separate incident, On Thursday, the toll in spurious hooch case in adjoining Kushinagar district rose to six with two more deaths, prompting authorities to take action against nine officials. Authorities suspended the excise inspector, two head constables and two constables of the department. Besides, SP Kushinagar has sent four cops including SHO Tarya Sujan police station to the police line.

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On Tuesday night Chanchal Chauhan, 45, died after consuming the intoxicant, while Deba Nishad (55), Heera Lal Nishad (33) and Awadh Kishore Nishad had died immediately after consuming the drink on Monday. SP Kushinagar Rajiv Narayan Mishra said that "In the post-mortem report, the cause behind the death of two people was not clear so the viscera sample has been sent to Varanasi for a chemical test to ascertain the cause of death. The post-mortem report of other bodies is awaited. SHO Tarya Sujan, Vinay Pathak along with inspector and two constables of the area have been called at police lines,”.

As per locals, there was a fair in the village on the occasion of Mauni Amavasya and a lot of people had consumed the spurious liquor.

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