Sagar hooch tragedy suspect arrested after armed police encounter

In the forests of Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district, a weeks-long manhunt ended with a wounded young man in a hospital bed and sixteen lives already lost to the liquor he had brewed. Shivanjay Rajput, twenty-one years old and carrying a bounty on his head, fired at police before a returned shot brought him down — the nineteenth arrest in a case that asks older, harder questions about poverty, prohibition, and the recurring human cost of unregulated spirits. His capture closes one chapter of the investigation, but the conditions that make such tragedies possible remain largely untouched.