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Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday transferred the collectors and police chiefs of Sagar and Dewas and suspended three Dewas excise officials after suspected spurious liquor deaths. The Congress blames the liquor; the Dewas administration says some deaths were natural. Tolls differ.
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