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AdvertisingThe Kanpur police carried out searches at general merchant and government liquor shops in Ghatampur area Tuesday. AdvertisingInspector General (Kanpur Range) Alok Singh, said, “Preliminary investigation has shown that the victims had purchased liquor from general merchant shops in Khadri and Sukhiyapur villages. He added, “The licence of a government liquor shop in Ghatampur area, where a staffer was found to be involved in selling illicit liquor, has been suspended. Spurious liquor has claimed six lives in Kanpur’s Ghatampur area in the past four days, even as five persons, one of whom is critical, are undergoing treatment in hospital. A police probe has found that two general merchant stores in the area were selling illicit, country-made liquor..