Aligarh hooch tragedy: Opposition alleges admn hiding facts, actual death toll 'much higher'

Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh on Monday alleged discrepancies in the official death toll in the Aligarh hooch tragedy.

Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh on Monday alleged discrepancies in the official death toll in the Aligarh hooch tragedy and that last rites of many victims had been conducted without a post-mortem examination. Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Zamirullah Khan produced before the media the families of 12 people who he claimed died over the past three days after consuming spurious liquor and whose last rites were conducted 'under pressure without a post-mortem examination'. Leaders of the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) and the Congress claimed that there are several such cases and that the local administration was 'hiding facts'.