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Indian police crackdown on illegal liquor suppliers after 86 die

Indian police raided rural hamlets and made arrests to break up a bootlegging cartel on Sunday after 86 people died from consuming illegally-produced alcohol this week in the northwestern state of Punjab, officials said.

“We have conducted raids at more than 30 places today and we have detained six more persons,” Dhruman H. Nimbale, a senior police officer in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district, told Reuters.

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