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Centre Ready To Shower Help For Prohibition In States

Aug. 02 Crime, Social Cause Comments

[New Delhi] Centre Ready To Shower Help Over States For Prohibition But Has no Plans to Impose Ban on Liquor Consumption Across the Country,
Minister of State for Home Hansraj Gangaram Ahir, while replying to questions, said 2927 people had died due to consumption of illicit/spurious liquor between 2012 and 2014.
Of these, 731 died in 2012,
497 in 2013 and
1699 in 2014.
The central government can help states but it has no plans so far for a national level prohibition on liquor,
Ahir said a total of
2.83 crore litres of liquor was seized in 2014 under the Excise Act, which included over
91 lakh liters of ‘desi’ or country-made liquor.
Similarly, 1.15 crore litres of factory-made and over
76 lakh litres of “other” liquor was seized in the same year.
Till June this year, various enforcement agencies had seized
1366.35 kg of amphetamine,
6.51 kg of cocaine,
44,811.82 kg of ephedrine,
38,418.89 kg of ganja,
1,144.12 kg of hashish,
351.12 kg of heroin,
16.57 kg of ketamine,
663.15 kg of opium,
205150 bottles of cough syrup phensidyle,
12,903.41 kg of poppy husk, 34,018.34 kg of poppy straw and 43.74 kg of pseudo-ephedrine

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