Lucknow: The stigma of the spurious liquor scandal is not removed from the name of Aligarh and in 2021, Aligarh topped the country in deaths due to spurious liquor. Uttar Pradesh was also the state with the highest number of deaths due to the Aligarh incident with 137 deaths. This has been revealed in the NCRB report for the year 2021.
According to the report, there have been a total of 782 deaths due to spurious liquor across the country. In which Punjab is second with 127 deaths and Madhya Pradesh is in third place with 108 deaths. Let us tell you that in the year 2021, the poisonous liquor scandal started at the end of May. Due to the consumption of adulterated liquor, 109 people lost their lives in different areas of the district. Workers from Bihar were also involved in this. This incident shook the entire country. Many employees, and policemen, including the Excise officer, were punished.
Maharashtra, and Goa, which are among the most alcohol-consuming states, did not have a single death due to poisonous, adulterated liquor in the year 2021. Apart from this, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Ladakh, Pondicherry, Lakshadweep, Daman and Diu are the states where no deaths due to alcohol have been reported. At the same time, Gujarat and Bihar, where prohibition is in force. Even after this, 4 deaths have occurred in Gujarat and 2 in Bihar due to alcohol.
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