It appears the dry state Gujarat isn't so dry after all. Three farmers have been arrested in the state for selling illegal alcohol after their own buffaloes got drunk on the hooch.
One of the men had called a vet when the buffaloes stopped eating and started frothing at the mouth, The Times of India reported.?The vet then inspected the water trough that the animals had been drinking from and "observed a strange smell and found the water to be coloured".
This, it turned out, was because the men had hidden bottles of moonshine in the trough and some of them had broken, contaminating the water. The farmers told the vet that the colour was from branches falling into the water, but the vet reported them to the authorities after leaving the stable, the report said.?
When the cops raided the place, they found more than 100 bottles of alcohol worth Rs 32,000, tucked inside the trough and under some fodder.??
The three farmers were arrested.?
"The animals probably drank the water laced with liquor from the damaged liquor bottles," a police official told TOI, adding that the buffaloes have since recovered from their drunken ordeal.? ?
In Gujarat --?Prime Minister Narendra Modi's?home state -- making, buying, selling or transporting alcohol is outlawed, punishable by hefty fines and even prison sentences.??
Meanwhile, far away from Gujarat, a?squirrel in US' Minnesota?grabbed headlines last year when it became intoxicated accidentally after eating some fermented pears.?
The incident was captured on camera and it went viral after being shared on YouTube.?