<span style="color: #222222;">Uttar Pradesh police and excise officials launched a massive crackdown against bootlegging across the state on Sunday following the recent hooch tragedy in Saharanpur and Kushinagar districts. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">More than 3,000 people have been arrested in the operations which were launched late Friday night on the orders of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Over 2,800 cases have been registered and police have recovered more than one lakh thirty thousand litres of illicit liquor till now.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In Kushinagar, Deputy SP of Tankuhi Raj area has been removed and 47 police personnel were sent to police lines.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A joint operation against illicit liquor is also on in Uttarakhand. Two people have, so far, been arrested.<br />''<br />''The death toll in both the states due to the tragedy has risen to 76. In UP, forty-five people have lost their lives, while 31 have died in Uttarakhand. </span><br />