Mumbai hooch toll rises to 25, ten critical

The toll in the in the Mumbai hooch tragedy has gone up to 25 even as ten victims continue to be critical, police said on Friday.

While 13 people died on Thursday night in the tragedy that struck on Wednesday, the casualty figure rose to 25 at 8 am on Friday, said Mumbai Police spokesperson Dhananjay Kulkarni.

He said the police have arrested three persons in this regard and booked them under Sections 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 328 (causing hurt by means of poison, etc. with intent to commit an offence) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of IPC.

The accused have been identified as Raju Hanmanta Pascar (50), Donald Robert Patel (47) and Gautam Harte (30).