AMRITSAR, May 17 -- A local court on Friday extended the remand of 9 of the 10 accused arrested in connection with the sale of spurious liquor that claimed 27 lives in villages of Majitha sub-division in Amritsar district by four days, officials said. "Agreeing with the ground presented by the public prosecution, the court extended the police remand by four days more, officials added. Since Monday, when the incident came to light, 27 people, primarily daily-wage workers from villages including Bhangali, Patalpuri, Marari Kalan, Talwandi Khumman, Karnala, Bhagwan, and Threawal, have died. No deaths were reported on Friday. A woman accused, identified as Ninder Kaur, whose husband also died after consuming the hooch, was sent to 14-day judicial custody. A police probe has revealed that methanol, a chemical used in industrial products, was procured in bulk via online platforms to prepare the toxic brew. Methanol is a light, colourless organic chemical compound which is poisonous when ingested and is illegally added to alcoholic beverages. A total of 18 people have been named in FIRs registered at Majitha and Kathunangal police stations under Sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 103 (murder) of the BNS and relevant sections of the Excise Act and the SC/ST Act. Leader of Opposition (LoP), Partap Singh Bajwa, on Friday said that the AAP government's war against drugs has proven to be a fiasco. "CM Bhagwant Mann and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal are launching the Nasha Mukti Yatra from Nawanshahr. However, both have failed awfully to make Punjab a drug-free state within the deadlines they decided" he said. In Jalandhar, Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu questioned Arvind Kejriwal's locus standi in Punjab government. "Kejriwal should come clean in Delhi liquor cases before giving advice to people of Punjab,"he said....