At least 11 persons have died and 16 are in a serious condition after consuming spurious liquor in Kanpur Nagar and Kanpur Dehat districts of Uttar Pradesh, the police said on Sunday.
The seriously ill have been admitted to the L.L.R. Hospital and the Ursula Horsman Memorial Hospital in Kanpur, and the District Hospital in Kanpur Dehat.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced ex-gratia compensation of ₹2 lakh each to the kin of the dead.
Quoting relatives of the victims, Superintendent of Police (Kanpur rural) Pradyuman Singh said on Saturday that all of them had consumed liquor bought from a government liquor shop.
An FIR under various Sections of the IPC and the Excise Act had been lodged against Shyam Balak, the licence holder of the shop. Balak, however, has gone missing.
The main accused, Vinay Singh, a relative of former Samajwadi Party MLA Ram Swarup, was among more than half a dozen persons arrested in the case.
