SP ex-mantri, grandsons booked for hooch deaths

Lucknow: Former SP minister Ramswarup Gaur and his two grandsons Neeraj Singh and Vinay Singh, along with others, have been booked for selling spurious liquor in Kanpur which has led to 14 deaths over the past three days. The police has arrested Neeraj, Vinay and nine others in connection with the case.

The Kanpur administration has banned sale of liquor brand ‘Madhuri-442’ which is believed to have caused the deaths. The incident came to the fore on Sunday when some of the people, who had consumed spurious alcohol, were found dead in their houses in Kanpur.

Kanpur SP (rural) Pradyuman Singh said on Monday that according to the relatives of the victims, all of them had consumed liquor bought from a government liquor shop.