Excise police seize 150 liters of adulterated toddy at Raichur railway station, six arrested
Raichur: A team of excise officials conducted a raid and arrested six individuals for allegedly attempting to sell illegal CH powder and adulterated toddy (liquor made from the sap of palm trees) on Bidar-Bengaluru Express.
The police have arrested Basavaraja, Srikanth, Shivaraja, Thimmappa, Narasamma and Marappa, and have confiscated 150 liters of liquor from the possession of the accused.
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Acting on a tipoff about adulterated toddy being sold and transported from Krishna in Narayanpet District of Telangana to Raichur, the police raided the train and arrested the accused.
According to the Excise Police, three separate cases have been registered against the accused, who are reportedly involved in the illegal collection and sale of toddy in various localities of Raichur.
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Three killed as fire destroys huts in Thane district
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Thane (PTI): Three persons were killed in a major fire that broke out in a slum cluster in Thane district of Maharashtra, triggering the explosion of multiple LPG cylinders, a civic official said on Saturday.
The blaze erupted at around 8.30 PM on Friday in the Navghar area of Mira Bhayander at Indralok slum colony, Chief Fire Officer of Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC) Prakash Borade told PTI.
Flames were visible from a long distance as the fire quickly spread through the densely packed cluster of temporary huts made of thatch and cloth, he said.
Around 30 to 35 huts were gutted in the incident. Several gas cylinders exploded during the blaze. Fire personnel managed to remove as many as 24 cylinders from the site, some of them filled and others empty, the official said.
Firefighters battled the blaze for nearly an hour before bringing it under control, Borade said.
The three deceased were charred beyond recognition, and their bodies have been sent to a government hospital for postmortem, he added.
The exact cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
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