[1] Adulteration of cheap liquor by methyl alcohol resulted in deaths.
Availability of cheap spurious alcohol (known as hooch) is a problem around the Tannery Road area of the Bangalore Cantonment, with many dwellers getting addicted.
Notorious bootlegger Marimuthu (who later became a councillor of BBMP) and Ameer Jan were running the operation.
[2] On 7 July 1981, about 300 people (Official figures 229) around the Tannery Road area died as a result of consuming this spurious alcohol.
A paltry sum of INR1000 (equivalent to INR20,400 in 2023; close to US$200) per family was paid to the victims by the Gundu Rao government.