He was arrested from north-east Delhi in a joint operation by Delhi and Mumbai Police this evening.
Sources say the main accused Mr Atiq, used to supply methanol after sourcing it from Gujarat, but was on the run since the incident last week.
Mumbai joint commissioner of police (crime) Atulchandra Kulkarni, said, “We have got him (Atiq) after a joint operation with the Delhi police”.
Mumbai crime branch officials have left for Mumbai with the main accused.
Earlier, the state government had set up a high level committee under their top bureaucrat for investigating the matter. Maharashtra chief secretary Swadheen Kshatriya, will head the probe into the incident that took place in Malvani colony in the city’s western suburbs.
State excise minister said, “The government has ordered a probe under the Chief Secretary to enquire into the deaths caused in the unfortunate Malvani hooch tragedy”. The report has to be submitted within three months.
The government has also proposed to change the colour of methanol to help distinguish it from other forms of industrial alcohol. Methanol is highly toxic to humans, but is added to illicit liquor to increase its alcohol content. Consumption of as little as 10ml of it can result in blindness, and 30ml or more is usually fatal.
After the tragedy, the police have raided over 150 such locations where liquor was brewed illegally and sold to gullible consumers.
Four officials of the state excise department and eight police officials have been suspended so far.
The state government has come under attack from the opposition, “I expect both Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Excise Minister Eknath Khadse to tender their resignations,” leader of opposition in Maharashtra assembly, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil told NDTV.
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