Mumbai: Police produced Mamta Rathod (30) and Agnes Gracy alias Aunty (50), who were arrested on Sunday, were produced in court on Monday and were remanded in police custody, taking the total number of arrests so far to seven in connection.
Police have said that these two women accused were "involved" in bootlegging.However, one of the prime suspect Mainka Bai is on the run.
"Yes, we have been unable to reach upto the mastermind but the way our investigation progressing, all I can say is that we would soon be able to assemble the missing links into the case," said Dhananjay Kulkarni, spokesperson of Mumbai Police.
He said, "We are ascertaining where and when the hooch was brewed, when was it transported into Mumbai and who are the other accused involved into this business so far."
Kulkarni further said that from the beginning of this year, Mumbai Police has registered 233 cases relating to sale of illicit liquor and most of the cases were traced to the North region only, where this tragedy has taken place.
Nirupam further said the people who consumed the spurious liquor could have been saved but for the negligence of the Shatabdi hospital.
"There is no detoxification facility or dialysis facility at the hospital. Just suspending senior police inspector and excise officials will not do. Deputy Commissioner of Police of North Mumbai should also be sacked.
Provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) should be invoked against them," he said. He also demanded a thorough probe into how the spurious liquor business had revived in the last few months and said a high level CBI inquiry should be ordered to bust the involvement of inter state and inter district mafia.
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