DGP constitutes team to assist ATS squad in suspected hooch tragedy probe

Gandhinagar: DGP P P Pandey has constituted a four member team of policemen to assist the ATS probe squad under its SP Himanshu Shukla in connection with the suspected hooch tragedy of Surat district which has taken at least 21 lives.

The four member team consisting Amerli DySP B M Desai, Bhavnagar DySP A M Saiyad, PI of state IB H V Sisara and PI of the police academy M S Sheikh will assist the ATS probe squad. The ATS probe was ordered by Chief Minister Vijay Rupani three days ago. It will focus mainly on the criminal or any possible terror link in supply of Methanol, the ingredient of the spurious liquor which makes it poisonous.
Earlier the 3 member panel led by ADGP (law and order) V M Pargi constituted by the state government to investigate the incident had submitted its report to the home department on Tuesday.
The state government had transferred the then Surat IGP and rural SP even as three policemen including the PI of Kakodara GIDC police station were already put under suspension as a punitive measure in the wake of the incident centered in and around Vareli village of Surat.

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