Two persons were arrested in Delhi on Thursday for attempting to smuggle over 2,000 bottles of liquor into Bihar by hiding them inside wooden doors, the police said.
Bihar Hooch Tragedy: 9 Awarded Death Sentence, 4 Women Get Life Imprisonment
All the 13 surviving accused in the August 2016 case were convicted by Additional District Judge Luv Kush Kumar.
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Law06/Mar/2021
Gopalganj: Nine persons were awarded death sentence and four women were imprisoned for life by a court here on Friday in connection with a hooch tragedy that claimed close to 20 lives a few months after Bihar went dry.
All the 13 surviving accused in the August 2016 case were convicted by Additional District Judge Luv Kush Kumar.
According to special public prosecutor Ravi Bhushan Srivastava, altogether 14 people had been named accused in the illicit liquor case and one of them had died pending trial.