Updated: The major news headlines of the day, and more. Share Article AAA Policemen carry cans of spurious liquor recovered from a field at Harkhua Khajurbari village in Bihar’s Gopalganj district on August 17, 2016 after several people died after consuming hooch. | Photo Credit: PTI The major news headlines of the day, and more. Nine persons were awarded the death sentence and four life imprisonments on March 5, after being held guilty by a local court in Gopalganj district in the Khajurbanni hooch tragedy in which as many as 19 people had died and six had lost their eye-sight. The local court of Additional District Judge-2 of Gopalganj district held all 13 accused persons guilty in the case and awarded death sentence to nine of them and life imprisonment to four women.