India, May 30 -- Nationalist Congress Party (SP) leader Rohit Pawar on Friday led a group of party workers in ransacking the shop that allegedly sold the spurious liquor that took the lives of many across Pimpri Chinchwad and Pune.

As news about the deaths surfaced on Friday, Pawar visited the families of the deceased and also the Sassoon Hospital where many victims were admitted in critical condition. On Friday at 3 pm, a Pawar-led NCP (SP) group went to a slum in Hadapsar where a shop that allegedly sold the toxic liquor was located, and vandalised it.

Pawar later said, "This is an extremely serious matter. So many people died from consuming poisonous liquor. I visited Sassoon Hospital to check the details of those admitted after fall...