Immediately after the hooch deaths, rumours falsely traced the supply to the Kalvarayan Hills. This brought the local tribal residents under intense police scrutiny and left them vulnerable.
Arrack and hooch-related prohibition cases declined from 2,472 in 2024 to 742 in the next 13 months till January 2026, but ganja is now slowly gaining ground.
TNIE learnt that while the four orphaned children had not received their monthly allowance for past four months, the remaining 34 had not received the money for the past nine months since October 2024 ...
The victim’s blood sample was sent to a Pune-based laboratory for testing, the results of which, in December last year, confirmed that the death was due to methanol poisoning.
