At least 36 people have died and 50 others hospitalised after drinking contaminated alcohol. 9News
Deaths from drinking bootleg alcohol — known colloquially as "country made liquor" — are not uncommon in India.
While Gujarat and a few other Indian states criminalise the sale and consumption of alcohol, it is legal in most of the country of 1.3 billion — 22.5 per cent of whom live below the poverty line,But even in states where drinking is legal, bootleg alcohol remains popular, especially in poorer, rural areas.Moonshine is typically brewed in villages before being smuggled into cities, where it can sell for about US10 cents a glass — about a third of the price of legally brewed liquor.
"The byproducts of methanol metabolism cause an accumulation of acid in the blood , blindness, and death," according to the CDC.In February 2019, at least 154 people died and more than 200 were hospitalised after drinking tainted alcohol in the north-eastern state of Assam. Earlier that month, 80 people died in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand after drinking illegal alcohol, prompting regional police to crack down on bootleggers.
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