Officials reported on Tuesday that after consuming tainted alcohol in western India, at least 28 people died and 60 others fell ill.
The killings, according to senior government official Mukesh Parmar, took place in the Gujarati state’s Ahmedabad and Botad districts, where the production, distribution, and consumption of alcohol are all outlawed.
The specific chemical that was utilised to change the alcohol was not immediately revealed.
Gujarat State Police Chief Ashish Gupta reported that several suspected bootleggers who were engaged in the sale of the adulterated booze have been detained.
In India, where illicit liquor is inexpensive and frequently spiked with additives like pesticides to improve potency, alcohol-related deaths from illegal brewing are widespread.
In India, the sale of illicit alcohol has grown to be a very lucrative business where bootleggers don’t pay taxes and give their goods out for cheap to the underprivileged.
In India’s northern Punjab state in 2020, contaminated alcohol caused at least 120 deaths.