Eleven persons died over two days due to spurious liquor poisoning in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district, PTI reported on Sunday.Another 80 persons from four to five villages in the Banda tehsil of the district fell ill and were admitted to hospitals, The New Indian Express reported. One critically ill patient was airlifted from the medical college in Sagar to Bhopal.The first death was reported at Banda Civil Hospital on Saturday night, while the other fatalities began taking place from early Sunday morning, the newspaper reported. Those who died hailed from six villages – Ghooghra Khurd, Nauraj, Bamoora, Patan, Chauka and Dalpatpur.Three cases have been registered based on the complaints of the victims, PTI quoted Sagar Range Deputy Inspector General of Police Shashindra Chouhan as saying. Two police officials – the Banda Police station house officer and an outpost in-charge – have been suspended, Chouhan said.During the investigation, a link emerged between some persons in Uttar Pradesh’s Lalitpur and a local liquor outlet owner, the deputy inspector general was quoted as saying by the news agency.Sagar Collector Pratibha Pal also said initial inquiries indicated that the liquor had come from Lalitpur.“There is a gang in Lalitpur that supplies this kind of poisonous liquor,” PTI quoted the collector as saying. “Since this area is adjacent to Uttar Pradesh, this has come to light in the preliminary investigation. The matter is being investigated.”Apart from the two police officials, Sagar Assistant Excise Commissioner Kirti Dubey, Additional District Excise Officer Dilip Kandaka and Sub-Inspector Roshani Urathi were also suspended, Madhya Pradesh Excise Commissioner Deepak Saxena said.Further, Area Deputy Commissioner Neerja Shrivastava has been transferred out of Sagar and attached to the department’s headquarters in Gwalior.Saxena was quoted as saying by PTI that the packaging of the liquor looked original, like that of locally made brands. “The agent of the licensed liquor seller sold it and people thought it was genuine,” he said.Edited by Neerad Pandharipande.