MP hooch tragedy suspect arrested after police encounter

In the early hours of a Sunday morning in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district, a young man named Shivanjay Rajput was captured by police following an encounter operation — the first arrest in a hooch tragedy that took sixteen lives. He was twenty-one years old and carried a bounty of thirty thousand rupees, markers of a case the state had decided it could not leave unresolved. His arrest does not restore what was lost, but it signals that the machinery of accountability has begun to turn, and that the dead will not be forgotten without a reckoning.