Gujarat had banned alcohol consumption since 1960 as a homage to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
[2] Gujarat has witnessed several occasions of alcohol poisoning, claiming the lives of more than 400 people after the ban was enforced.
[5] On 7 July 2009, ten people died in Behrampura after drinking spurious liquor.
[8] Two hundred seventy-six people were admitted in various hospitals with nearly 100 of them in intensive care units.
[13] The leader of the opposition of Gujarat Assembly, Shaktisinh Gohil, alleged that Rasik Paramar, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillor in the area, was a key figure in the state's bootlegging network.