Crime Branch officials said investigations have revealed that a day before the hooch tragedy, the prime accused, Francis D’Mello, made the killer brew using just methanol and water as he had run out of ethanol
Could timely treatment have saved the lives of at least a few of the 106 victims in the Malwani hooch tragedy is the question that was raised by this paper’s front page report yesterday
On the heels of mid-day’s exposé of a hooch unit on an island in SGNP, a nature lover noticed men fishing in the Tulsi lake, which is home to several species and is a source of drinking water for animals
Malwani police returned empty handed from the den of the prime accused 2 days after tragedy, leaving drums containing hundreds of litres of deadly methanol behind, assuming that they contained water
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday sought a report on the recent Mumbai hooch tragedy that claimed 102 lives
Upcoming comedy entertainer "Gun Pe Done", set to highlight problem of illicit liquor in Mumbai, rued that top leaders had ignored their request to join the "Hooch Free India" campaign
While teams in Delhi and Gujarat nabbed a major hooch dealer and two key methanol suppliers respectively, Crime Branch officials in city are now focusing on a gangster from Malwani, who has considerable political heft and is known as ‘Daddy’ like Dagdi Chawl’s gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli
If Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has his way, those responsible for the 104 deaths in the Malwani hooch tragedy could pay for the crime with their own lives
Following mid-day's report, state Excise Department raided, destroyed illicit liquor brewing unit in the Saibhangoda tribal hamlet, along the Vihar lake inside the Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Even as dozens of critical patients from Malwani were rushed to Shatabdi Hospital on Thursday evening, the dialysis centre, which is run by a trust and shuts at 5 pm, was not reopened
The main accused in the spurious liquor case in Mumbai has been arrested from Delhi and produced before Karkardooma Court on Tuesday. The tragedy had resulted in the death of more than 100 people, with a further 47 people hospitalised for consuming the hooch.
The Maharashtra government on Tuesday ordered a probe into the hooch tragedy deaths after more than 100 victims succumbed to the killer brew and many lost their eye sights permanently, in suburban Malwani, in Mumbai.
In a breakthrough into the worst-ever hooch tragedy in Mumbai that has so far claimed 102 lives and rendered over 40 people ill, police have tracked down and arrested one of the main suppliers of the killer brew in Delhi today while the Maharashtra government has ordered a Chief Secretary-headed probe into the case
After the horrific Malwani hooch tragedy, the city police have taken a two-pronged approach to curb the consumption of spurious alcohol
A court in Mumbai has sent two women to police custody over their alleged involvement in a hooch tragedy. Toxic homemade liquor killed more than 94 slum dwellers in Mumbai, with more than 45 in hospital recently.
Highly placed sources in Mantralaya have told mid-day that the sword of Damocles is hanging over the head of the Mumbai Commissioner of Police (CP), who may be on his way out
Bootleggers have told the Crime Branch that a Malwani policeman would allegedly come by every month and collect Rs 600 in the name of senior officers; the police would then ignore the issue while the sellers ruined people’s lives
Undeterred by 104 people dying due to illicit liquor barely in Malwani, locals at Sanjay Gandhi National Park are busy making hooch in a tiny island in the middle of Vihar lake
Police have sent three of the bodies for post-mortem to know the exact cause of death
In the wake of the Malad hooch tragedy that has claimed nearly hundred lives so far, Maharashtra Minister Eknath Shinde today said he has ordered wiping out of furnaces in Thane district, where hooch is distilled