This is a REAL problem in INDIA
Truth is difficult to hide. Excise minister Asim Dasgupta may deny the hooch deaths in Maheshtala, but the tears of the bereaved families and the telltale signs of hooch poisoning chest burn, blurred vision and frothing at the mouth point to the shocking truth. TOI's Caesar Mandal talked to the widows and families of the five victims and found two constants they were all alcoholic and had been to Bankim alias Banka Mandal's hooch den at some point of time on January 26. It is another matter that police and the excise minister, perhaps, won't accept the truth until doctors write hooch death' on the death certificates. Victim: Bhola Das (45) Profession: daily wage labourer Excise officials should meet Bhola's widow Shiela before jumping to the conclusion that it wasn't hooch that killed him. "My husband came home drunk on Monday morning and went to bed. A few minutes later, he got up in a panic. He felt a terrible burning sensation in his abdomen. Writhing in pain, he told me that he could not see things properly. We took him to Vidyasagar Hospital but he started frothing on the way. When I asked him, he told that he had taken hooch at Banka's den that day," Shiela told TOI. Victim: Sambhu Shaw (50) Profession: employee at a photocopy centre Like the two, Sambhu was also a regular at Banka's hooch den. Everyone in the locality knows it. In fact, Sambhu was admonished quite a few times by his landlady Pushpa Singh when he would get drunk and create nuisance. "He returned home late on Monday, drunk as usual, and went to bed. He got up in the wee hours of Tuesday and we could hear him vomiting pretty badly. But that did not help reduce his chest pain. Some of us took him to SSKM Hospital where he died," the landlady said. Amal Naskar, a local resident, had seen Sambhu coming out of the hooch den the night before.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4044654.cms
Kolkata: The number of deaths following the consumption of spurious liquor continued to rise in Kolkata with seven more deaths reported on Monday. Twenty-five people have died so far after consuming illicit liquor from various unauthorised sellers in the port area of the city.
At a high-level meeting chaired by Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta, also in-charge of the excise department, the state Government announced a probe into the illicit liquor business in Bengal. “If any Government agency is found to be involved in patronising the illegal liquor business, strict action will be taken against the guilty,” said Dasgupta.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/seven-more-hooch-deaths-in-bengal-govt-.../407178/
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