Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka see spike in deaths due to hooch between 2016-20

In India, the number of hooch tragedies has only gone up. According to a report in ABP live, India sees the death of 3 people every day due to the consumption of spurious liquor

The recent hooch tragedy in the state of Gujarat has caused a furore in the country. With political parties training their guns on the BJP-led central government, as many as 28 people have died so far after consuming spurious liquor, while 40 others have been hospitalised. But, this is not the first time that India has reported an incident of people dying after consuming spurious liquor. A similar case was reported from Bihar, wherein 32 people died since Holi due to spurious liquor. 

What is Hooch?
 

Hooch is a kind of liquor which is cheap, brewed in small unregulated shanties