Mumbai hooch tragedy main accused held in Delhi
‘We have got him (Atiq) after a joint operation with the Delhi police’
New Delhi: In a breakthrough into the worst-ever hooch tragedy in Mumbai that has so far claimed 102 lives and rendered over 40 people ill, police have tracked down and arrested one of the main suppliers of the killer brew in Delhi on Tuesday while the Maharashtra government has ordered a Chief Secretary-headed probe into the case.
Atiq, whom police had narrowed down as a main supplier of the spurious liquor, was arrested in Delhi with the help of the local police there, Mumbai Joint Commissioner of police (Crime) Atulchandra Kulkarni, said.
“We have got him (Atiq) after a joint operation with the Delhi police,” Mr. Kulkarni told PTI.
Nearly a week after the tragedy struck a working class area in Malwani, Excise Minister Eknath Khadse after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday told reporters that the probe would be conducted by Chief Secretary Swadheen Kshatriya.