Report by Pravuprasad Routray; Bhubaneswar: Over 25 people killed in Odisha by consuming spurious liquor in Cuttack district and Khurda district. This tragic incidence happened in Monday evening in Barang-Mahidharpada area under the Cuttack district. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik orders judicial probe by retired HC judge into Mahidharapada liquor deaths. CM promises exemplary punishment for those involved in the tragedy.
Mahidharapada deaths due to spurious medicines not liquor says Cuttack collector. Cuttack collector says death toll mounts up to 21, collector seals medicine factory at Rasulgarh.
At least 25 people were taken to hospitals where some were in a critical condition. The victims and the critically affected persons had consumed the killer brew from the liquor shop owned by one Baidhar Bhoi. Baidhar ran the liquor shop at his own house at Tukuklipada under Kurang panchayat under Barang block. It was Baidhar who was first killed by the spurious liquor.