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April 08, 2020 15:40 IST
Man hooked to booze dies in TN after vain bid to get his dose
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Villupuram (TN), Apr 8 (PTI) After trying desperately to
get a bottle of liqour, a 65-year old man fainted and was
later pronounced dead at a government hospital, police said
here on Wednesday.
The elderly man, when he heard that liquor stocks were
being shifted from four neighbourhood outlets to a warehouse,
lined up in front of the shops at Janakipuram here alongwith
scores of other consumers.
They desperately pleaded with officials to sell them any
alcoholic beverage.
Despite police presence and in spite of authorities
telling consumers that stocks cannot be sold in view of
lockdown, they continued to mill around the premises on
Tuesday with a hope that officials would relent.
Following incidents of State-run Tamil Nadu State
Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) liquor stores getting burgled
in regions including Coimbatore and Tiruchirappalli recently,
authorities have been transferring inventories from outlets
considered vulnerable to warehouses.
As part of the lockdown from 6 pm on March 24 in
the state, all liquor outlets are shut.
The sexagenarian, after trying his luck in three other
shops, came to the fourth one and "he tried his best to get
a bottle of liquor but could not and he fainted.
We rushed him to a government hospital in an ambulance,
but hospital authorities pronounced him brought dead
yesterday," a senior district police official told PTI.
The official said the elderly person was used to
consuming alcohol and could not get his dose in view of curbs
and was dejected.
The crowd of men, who teemed around the liquor shops
were dispersed and they were not sold beverages, he added.
Following the lockdown, at least four men have died
recently in Tamil Nadu after they consumed shaving lotion and
paint varnish, falsely believing that these would give them a
high and were not harmful.
A 43-year old man hailing from Karur district allegedly
committed suicide following frustration due to days of alcohol
deprivation. PTI VGN
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