New Delhi: In the latest development in the Mumbai hooch tragedy that claimed 102 lives rendered over 40 people ill, one of the accused in the case was on Tuesday arrested in the national capital.
In a joint operation by the Delhi Crime Branch and Mumbai Police, main supplier Atiq was arrested from North East district near Seelampur in the national capital.
"We have got him (Atiq) after a joint operation with the Delhi police," Mumbai Joint Commissioner of police
(Crime) Atulchandra Kulkarni.
Later, Atiq was produced in Karkarduma court for transit remand.
Nearly a week after the tragedy struck a working class area in Malwani, Excise Minister Eknath Khadse after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday said that the probe would be conducted by Chief Secretary Swadheen Kshatriya.
"The government has ordered a probe under the Chief Secretary to enquire into the deaths caused in the unfortunate
Malwani hooch tragedy and submit the report within three months," Khadse said.
Earlier on Tuesday, an internal security meeting, attended by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and top police officials, was held over the issue in Mumbai. The Chief Minister, during the meeting, opined that the culprits should be hanged.
The death toll in the worst hooch tragedy rose to 102 with the death of five more victims who consumed spurious liquor in Malad area and another 46 are in hospitals with eight of them struggling to survive serious ill-effects of the killer brew.
Mumbai Police on Monday produced Mamta Rathod and Agnes Gracy alias Aunty, who were arrested on Sunday, in court and remanded in the custody, taking the total number of arrests so far to seven in connection.
Police have said that these two women accused were "involved" in bootlegging.However, one of the prime suspect Mainka Bai is on the run.
"Yes, we have been unable to reach upto the mastermind but the way our investigation progressing, all I can say is that we would soon be able to assemble the missing links into the case," said Dhananjay Kulkarni, spokesperson of Mumbai Police.
He said, "We are ascertaining where and when the hooch was brewed, when was it transported into Mumbai and who are the other accused involved into this business so far."
Kulkarni further said that from the beginning of this year, Mumbai Police has registered 233 cases relating to sale of illicit liquor and most of the cases were traced to the North region only, where this tragedy has taken place.
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