Assam: Four People Perish After Entering Tank Used to Make Illicit Liquor

TINSUKIA: In a sad development, four people including two from a family perished after they entered a tank used to prepare illegal country liquor.

The incident took place in the Number 1 Rangajan Village located in the Talap locality of the Tinsukia district in Assam where the four people entered into the tank. Reports mentioned that Ramprasad Rai, a local resident, used to run an operation of production of illegal country liquor and sell the same to the local people.

The four dead in the incident were identified as seventy years 70 years old Ramprasad Rai and his son 40 years old Pataraji Rai. Two labourers named Jagdish Gowala (aged 40 years) and Pulka Kisan (aged 38 years) also died in the same incident.

Meanwhile, the police officials of the Tinsukia district have initiated an investigation into the incident to detect the main causes leading to their death and their dead bodies were sent to the Doomdooma First Response Unit after the incident.

A few days back, the Excise Department started an operation in the Barpeta district against illegal liquor businesses which has been going on in the entire district for a long period. Barpeta district administration along with the police administration and Excise department team have damaged some illicit liquor businesses and seized some of them. In some tribal areas, this local liquor business has been going on continuously. From those places, illicit local liquor is being supplied to different corners of the town. As this locally-made liquor is not scientifically made, people have suffered from various diseases.

As per orders from the departmental minister, the Excise department has started the operation and seized illegal liquor from different places. On Friday, the Judicial Magistrate of Barpeta district Pritam Thakuriya, Excise Superintendent Manasjyoti Das, Excise Inspector ( Sadar), Barpeta Tapan Ch Kalita and a group of police and Excise workers seized a huge amount of illicit liquor at Damradowa village in Barpeta district. The women of that place prevented the police team and attacked the police and excise force.

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