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Gujarat is the only Indian state with a death penalty for the manufacture and sale of homemade liquor that results in fatalities. The legislation is titled the Bombay Prohibition (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 2009. [29] The legislation was prompted by numerous deaths resulting from the consumption of methyl alcohol. [30]
Gujarat had banned alcohol consumption since 1960 as a homage to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. However bootlegged alcohol, known as Hooch, is widely available, allegedly under the patronage of the local police. [2] Gujarat has witnessed several occasions of alcohol poisoning, claiming the lives of more than 400 people after the ban was enforced. [3]
Alcohol is prohibited in Gujarat state. Illegal manufacture and sale of toxic alcohol is punishable by death under Bombay Prohibition (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 2009. The law was made after 2009 Gujarat alcohol poisonings in which more than 136 people had died. [6] Illicit spurious liquor known locally as "lattha", is popular in rural Gujarat.
The legal drinking age in India and the laws which regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol vary significantly from state to state. [1] In India, consumption of alcohol is prohibited in the states of Bihar, Gujarat, Nagaland, [2] and Mizoram, as well as the union territory of Lakshadweep. There is partial ban on alcohol in some districts of ...
The Bombay Prohibition (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 2009 is an Act of Gujarat Legislative Assembly which prohibits manufacture, selling, buying or distributing of Laththa (spurious liquor). The Act defines Laththa as spurious liquor, which contains methanol or any other poisonous substances which may cause harmful or injurious effects to the human ...
Sep. 17—For the second year in a row, alcohol will be banned on St. Simons Island beaches the weekend of the Georgia-Florida football game. Glynn County Commissioners approved the ban at ...
Gujarat alcohol poisonings may refer to 2009 Gujarat alcohol poisonings; 2022 Gujarat toxic liquor deaths This page was last edited on 27 ...
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