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TN Hooch Tragedy: 21 Cops Suspended
Times of India ^ | 06.24.2008 | Times of India

Posted on 06/24/2008 4:57:22 AM PDT by Coffee200am

DHARMAPURI (TN): Tamil Nadu Government has suspended 21 police personnel, including an inspector, in connection with the Saturday's hooch tragedy in a village near here which claimed three lives.

Inspector M Krishnan and five other personnel of the Bommidi Police station and 15 members of Harur Prohibition Enforcement Wing had been suspended on the recommendations of District Superintendent of Police Najmul Hoda, police said on Monday.

Three persons died and 40 were hospitalised after drinking the killer brew in Kukkalmalai village, 35 km from here on Saturday in the second liquor tragedy in less than a month in the state.

41 people died in adjoining Krishnagiri district while over 130 people died in neighbouring Karnataka after drinking illicit liquor on May 18.

The suspension of police personnel comes two day's after state ADGP (Prohibition Enforcement Wing) A R Shyam Sundar said more than 30,000 people were involved in distillation and sale of illicit arrack in Harur and Pappireddipatti areas in the district.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: cops; hooch; india
I didn't know they called it "hooch"...let alone drank.
1 posted on 06/24/2008 4:57:22 AM PDT by Coffee200am
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To: Coffee200am

My first glance at the article title led me to believe those crazy Tennesseans were making moonshine again!


2 posted on 06/24/2008 4:59:22 AM PDT by Flo Nightengale (Keep sweet? I'll show you sweet.....)
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To: Flo Nightengale

I’m glad I’m not the only one.


3 posted on 06/24/2008 5:00:26 AM PDT by WayneS (What the hell is wrong with these people?)
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To: Coffee200am

I have a large group of friends from India that are Hindu. And oh yeah, they drink! Not any more than anyone else but alcohol is always a part of celebrations, weddings etc, just like the majority of us.


4 posted on 06/24/2008 5:01:29 AM PDT by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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To: ktscarlett66

I learned something....


5 posted on 06/24/2008 5:02:20 AM PDT by Coffee200am
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To: Coffee200am
"Prohibition Enforcement Wing"? That is the problem.

Prohibition Kills. People literally dying to drink.

6 posted on 06/24/2008 5:07:17 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Coffee200am

born on a mountain top of Tennessee, greenest state in the land of the free, born in the woods so he new every tree...

....killed him a 5th in a bar when he was three!!!


7 posted on 06/24/2008 5:15:17 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: Vaquero

**born on a mountain top of Tennessee, greenest state in the land of the free, born in the woods so he new every tree...

....killed him a 5th in a bar when he was three!!!***

I dreamed that I was on old Rockey Top,
down in the Tennessee hills.

Ain’t no smoggy smoke on Rockey Top,
ain’t no telephone bills.

Corn won’t grow at all on Rockey Top,
dirt’s too rockey by far.

That’s why all the folks on Rockey Top,
get their corn from a jar.


8 posted on 06/24/2008 6:09:32 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Flo Nightengale

My first glance at the article title led me to believe those crazy Tennesseans were making moonshine again!
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What? You see the abbreviation TN in connection with hooch and don’t immediately conjure up images of Tamil Nadu?


9 posted on 06/24/2008 7:00:25 AM PDT by dmz
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To: Flo Nightengale

“My first glance at the article title led me to believe those crazy Tennesseans were making moonshine again”

Again? They never stopped lol


10 posted on 06/24/2008 10:43:23 PM PDT by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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