The Crime Branch-CID has been granted three days custody of 11 persons, believed to involved in the spurious liquor case in Marakkanam.
The case relates to the death of 14 persons, including 13 men and one woman, from Ekkiyarkuppam and neighbouring Marakkanam colony, who had consumed spurious liquor, earlier this month.
The victims, mostly fishermen had purchased the brew on May 13. They began arriving in hospitals in Villupuram and Puducherry on May 13 and 14 and died one after the other