36 Dead After Consuming Bootleg Liquor, India
According to police, around 36 people have died and about 50 others have been hospitalized after consuming contaminated alcohol in western India.
Lydia Kadima 
All of them had ingested illegal moonshine in Gujarat's Botad and Ahmedabad districts, where it is against the law to produce, sell, and consume alcohol.
According to Bhatia, one of the individuals who was arrested took methanol from a Gujarati manufacturer and sold it to a cousin, who in turn sold it to others who diluted the chemical with water and marketed it as alcohol.
In India, the consumption of illicit alcohol, also referred to as "country made booze," frequently results in fatalities.
Alcohol sales and consumption are forbidden in Gujarat and a few other Indian states, but they are permitted throughout most of the nation.
However, even in jurisdictions where drinking is permitted, illicit alcohol is still widely consumed, particularly in less affluent rural areas.
Moonshine is usually made in small towns before being smuggled into urban areas where it may be purchased for as little as 10 cents per glass, or approximately a third of the cost of liquor that is produced legally.
Eighty people died earlier that month in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand from consuming illicit alcohol, which prompted local authorities to crack down on bootleggers.
In the northeastern province of Assam in February 2019, at least 154 people died and more than 200 were hospitalized as a result of consuming contaminated alcohol.
