The toll in the Aligarh hooch tragedy climbed to 36 on Monday with 11 more deaths being confirmed by the district authorities.
Viscera samples of 35 other people, who are suspected to have died after consuming spurious liquor, have been sent for examination to confirm the cause of death, chief medical officer Dr Bhanu Pratap Kalyani said.
“A total of 71 bodies have arrived at the post-mortem house from Friday to Monday. Liquor poisoning has been confirmed as the cause of death for 36 of these people,” Kalyani said.
Former Aligarh MLA Zameerullah Khan of the Samajwadi Party produced before the media the families of 12 people who he claimed died over the past three days after consuming spurious liquor and whose post-mortem was not conducted.
He demanded that the state government provide compensation to all such families.