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This is a partial list of alcohol poisonings in India. These incidents are often – but not exclusively – associated with methanol poisoning of the victims, where toxic methyl alcohol is used as a cheap way, as compared to the proper use of ethanol , to increase the alcohol content of moonshine .
The 2024 Tamil Nadu alcohol poisoning took place in Kallakurichi district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on 20 June 2024. Consumption of illegally made liquor resulted in at least 65 deaths and more than 200 injuries.
Deaths from illicit liquor are common in India, where illegally manufactured alcohol is often consumed for reasons including poverty and geographic isolation. Bootleggers have been known to add methanol , a toxic substance used in antifreeze, to such brews; it can also be present because of a mistake in the distilling process.
On 25 July 2022, at least 42 people died and more than 97 were hospitalized in a methanol poisoning incident in Gujarat, India. [1] [2] The victims had consumed undiluted methyl alcohol (methanol), assuming it to be alcohol. [3] The spurious liquor was then sold to more than 100 people in the villages of Ahmedabad, Botad and Surendranagar.
India has a thriving moonshine industry, and methanol-tainted batches have killed over 2,000 people in the last 3 decades, including: 1976: 100 people died in Gujarat. 1980: 44 died in Haryana; 1981: 1981 Karnataka liquor deaths; 1982: Vypeen alcohol poisonings; 1986: 108 died in Gujarat. 1987: 200 died in Gujarat. 1988: 32 people died in Gujarat.
Gujarat had banned alcohol consumption since 1960 as a homage to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. However bootlegged alcohol, known as Hooch, is widely available, allegedly under the patronage of the local police. [2] Gujarat has witnessed several occasions of alcohol poisoning, claiming the lives of more than 400 people after the ban was enforced. [3]
The 2008 Karnataka-Tamil Nadu alcohol poisonings was an incident in the southern Indian states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in May 2008 in which 180 people reportedly died after consuming illicit liquor. [1] [2] This incident is considered to be the worst methanol poisoning in the country since at least 2000. [3] [4]
Pages in category "Alcohol-related deaths in India" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. ... 2022 Gujarat alcohol poisoning; A.