The number of fatalities could go up as about 190 people are still undergoing treatment. The new cases were reported from Odhav, Amaraiwadi, Rakhial and Raipur.
On Thursday night, Gujarat Police rounded up over 800 bootleggers and sealed scores of illicit liquor dens across the state.
Earlier, the police had detained one suspected bootlegger Harishankar Kahar alias Hariom, who allegedly supplied spurious liquor in the Majoor Gam and Odhav areas where most of the deaths have occurred.
Anger spilled out on the streets with people protesting against the police and government’s inability to curb bootlegging in a state where sale and consumption of liquor is banned. Irate residents vandalised a total of seven buses on Thursday in Odhav, Viratnagar and Amraiwadi areas and pelted police vans with stones. Demonstrations were staged and effigies of state Home Minister Amit Shah burnt across the city.
A tight police bandobast was in place in Odhav where residents had called a bandh. Similar protests were staged in Naroda, Amraiwadi and Ramol areas in the city. Police resorted to mild lathicharge to bring the situation under control and detained 78 people as a preventive measure.
The Opposition Congress members, meanwhile, created uproarious scenes in the Assembly for the second day on Thursday after being denied permission by Speaker Ashok Bhatt to debate the hooch tragedy.
Seven Congress MLAs, who created a ruckus and even broke the microphone system, were placed under suspension for the rest of the Budget session by the Speaker. Two ACP's and four police inspectors have so far been suspended and transferred for dereliction of duty.
The Gujarat Government has announced that a commission headed by a retired High Court judge will probe the incident. Investigations have been handed over to the crime branch.