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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 .
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]
Pruno, also known as prison hooch or prison wine, is a term used in the United States to describe an improvised alcoholic beverage. It is variously made from apples , oranges , fruit cocktail , fruit juices , hard candy , sugar , high fructose syrup , and possibly other ingredients, including crumbled bread . [ 1 ]
On 20 June 2024, an incident of poisoning due to the consumption of illicit liquor occurred in Kallakurichi district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. [3] [4] [5] It resulted in vomiting, stomach aches and diarrhoea due to the presence of methanol in the liquor. [6]
Adulteration of cheap liquor by methyl alcohol resulted in deaths. Availability of cheap spurious alcohol (known as hooch) is a problem around the Tannery Road area of the Bangalore Cantonment, with many dwellers getting addicted. Notorious bootlegger Marimuthu (who later became a councillor of BBMP) and Ameer Jan were running the operation. [2]
The 2016 Bihar alcohol poisonings killed 16 people [1] [2] on 16 August 2016 in Gopalganj town of Bihar, India. [3] The victims had consumed hooch (spurious liquor) and complained of nausea and stomach ache.
The Delhi alcohol poisonings killed 199 people in Delhi on 5 November 1991 when they consumed illicit liquor. Most of them were casual labourers and rickshaw-pullers who died after consuming Karpoor Asav or sura, a so-called ayurvedic medicine. [ 1 ]
The 2011 West Bengal alcohol poisonings killed 167 people in December 2011 [1] in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal after consumption of spurious liquor mixed with methanol (methyl alcohol). [ 2 ]