The hooch tragedy in dry state Bihar led to a slanging match in the state assembly on Wednesday between opposition BJP and an angry Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
The Supreme Court, earlier this week, slammed the Punjab government over the large scale illicit liquor manufacturing in the State and the failure on part of the police authorities to properly probe the same.
Exactly 22 years after a hooch tragedy claimed 31 lives in Kerala, the key convict in the case was freed on Friday. Chandran alias Manichan, hailing from Chiryankeezhu in the suburbs of Thiruvananthapuram, was arrested for the death of 31 people on October 21, 2000, who died Kalluvathukkal, in Kollam district, after drinking spurious liquor.