SC to listen to plea looking for SIT probe into Bihar Hooch Tragedy

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, on January 9, will hear a plea looking for SIT probe into the Bihar Hooch tragedy that claimed not less than 70 lives within the Saran district earlier this month. 

Advocate Pawan Prakash Pathak for Aryavarta Mahasabha Foundation urged the bench headed by CJI DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha to checklist the plea.  “It will come up next Monday,” CJI DY Chandrachud remarked. 

The plea had additionally sought the formulation of an motion plan to curb the manufacturing, buying and selling and sale of illicit liquor and sufficient compensation to the victims’ households.

It was argued within the plea that there’s a want for a multi-pronged plan for the prevention and sale of spurious liquor.  “With political parties training their guns on each other, as many as 40 people have died so far after consuming spurious liquor, while others have been hospitalised and there is no official report on the incident,” the plea said.

It was additional argued that the Bihar Tragedy had brought on a furore within the nation. 

Aryavarta Mahasabha Foundation within the petition has said hooch is a form of liquor which is reasonable, brewed in small unregulated shanties and doesn’t appeal to excise tax. “This inferior quality drink is usually made after mixing chemicals with water, which is then consumed by people,” the petition additional added whereas contending that such liquor is extra generally bought in states which have imposed a full ban on liquor.

It additional said, “Ever since the Bihar government prohibited liquor sale in the state in 2016, it has invited scathing criticism for its substantial failure to enforce the ban and for several adverse consequences that the move has thrust on the people there.”

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, on January 9, will hear a plea looking for SIT probe into the Bihar Hooch tragedy that claimed not less than 70 lives within the Saran district earlier this month. 

Advocate Pawan Prakash Pathak for Aryavarta Mahasabha Foundation urged the bench headed by CJI DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha to checklist the plea.  “It will come up next Monday,” CJI DY Chandrachud remarked. 

The plea had additionally sought the formulation of an motion plan to curb the manufacturing, buying and selling and sale of illicit liquor and sufficient compensation to the victims’ households.

It was argued within the plea that there’s a want for a multi-pronged plan for the prevention and sale of spurious liquor.  “With political parties training their guns on each other, as many as 40 people have died so far after consuming spurious liquor, while others have been hospitalised and there is no official report on the incident,” the plea said.

It was additional argued that the Bihar Tragedy had brought on a furore within the nation. 

Aryavarta Mahasabha Foundation within the petition has said hooch is a form of liquor which is reasonable, brewed in small unregulated shanties and doesn’t appeal to excise tax. “This inferior quality drink is usually made after mixing chemicals with water, which is then consumed by people,” the petition additional added whereas contending that such liquor is extra generally bought in states which have imposed a full ban on liquor.

It additional said, “Ever since the Bihar government prohibited liquor sale in the state in 2016, it has invited scathing criticism for its substantial failure to enforce the ban and for several adverse consequences that the move has thrust on the people there.”