Chandigarh, Jul 31(UNI) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday rejected the Divisional Commissioner level inquiry ordered into the multiple hooch tragedies in Amritsar, Batala and Tarn Taran by chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh and demanded a judicial probe by a sitting judge of the Punjab and Haryana high court into the matter.
In a statement here, SAD Spokesman Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said the Chief Minister should not only hand over the responsibility of inquiring into the hooch tragedy which had claimed 21 lives to the high court, but also include the Rs 5,600 crore excise revenue loss, the sale of illegal liquor directly from distilleries, sale of spurious liquor from illegal distilleries and bottling plants patronised by Congress leaders and inter- State liquor smuggling in the ambit of the judicial probe. “This is the only way to break the back of the illegal liquor industry besides bringing the guilty to book”.