At least 19 people have died in Haryana after consuming suspected poisonous liquor, with villagers demanding action against liquor dealers and police arresting seven people in connection with the case, including the sons of Opposition leaders.
Police treated these five cases, along with the one informed by the hospital, as suspected spurious liquor poisoning incidents as they died under suspicious circumstances, the SP had said.
Officials said that seven persons had died in Yamunanagar district while two succumbed today in neighbouring Ambala district taking the toll in the suspected Haryana hooch tragedy to nine.