Forty-six others have been hospitalized, with many in a critical condition, after consuming the illegal homebrew, Mumbai police spokesman Dhananjay Kulkarni reported
Authorities said four men and two women had been booked over the deaths, on charges including culpable homicide, poisoning and abetting a crime.
Eight local police have also been suspended for negligence over the deaths, he said.
The incident took place near Laxmi Nagar, a large slum in Mumbai, India's financial capital.
Deaths from cheap, illegally brewed liquor often containing toxic methanol -- are not uncommon in India.
Kawander, a 35-year-old day laborer, left behind a wife and three children under the age of 11, they said.
Many men in the desperately poor slum work as day laborers, separating garbage or cleaning gutters, earning 50 -100 rupees ($0.78-$1.57) a day, locals reported
They tend to drink so as to cope with the stresses of their jobs dealing with garbage or human sewage, said Uma Ramchandra Harijan, whose husband, a gutter cleaner, drank the moonshine and is now battling for his life.
"They have to drink to get rid of the smell, to numb their senses," she said.
Harijan, who has a son, 3, and a 15-day-old daughter, also lost her father to the illegal moonshine.
Locals pointed out two houses in the slum they said the local bootleggers operated from; both were closed Monday.
Source - TIMES
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