A day after the stampede in Hathras the place at the very least 121 folks had been killed, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath introduced on Wednesday a judicial investigation into the incident as he met with these injured within the incident. He mentioned that six of these killed had been from different states, together with 4 from Haryana and one every from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. CM Yogi added that retired administration and police officers will probably be a part of the judicial investigation into the stampede. The committee will decide who was answerable for the tragedy and whether or not it was a conspiracy, in accordance with the chief minister.
Adityanath didn’t rule out a conspiracy within the stampede. He additionally said that the “sevadars” (volunteers working for the’satsang’ organisers) ought to have transported the victims to the hospital. Individuals had been dying, and the “sevadars” had fled, he claimed. The chief minister added that the federal government will take steps to forestall such incidents from occurring once more, and that a regular working process for spiritual congregations could also be applied.
Listed below are ten newest developments within the Hathras satsang stampede incident:
- The Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday filed a FIR in opposition to the congregation’s organisers, accusing them of violating circumstances by gathering 2.5 lakh folks for an occasion that solely allowed 80,000 folks.
- It additionally claimed that the organisers didn’t cooperate in visitors administration and hid proof following the stampede, which occurred when folks gathered to gather soil from the place the spiritual preacher’s car had handed.
- At a press convention, the chief minister said, “When the gentleman’s (Saakar Vishwa Hari Bhole Baba) preaching was completed, he got here down from the stage and his convoy moved ahead, and a gaggle of girls approached him to the touch him.” A crowd gathered round them and commenced climbing on prime of each other.
- Adityanath said, “The’sevadars’ saved pushing folks, inflicting the accident. It’s unlucky that the’sevadars’, who don’t allow the administration to attend such occasions, tried to cowl up the state of affairs. However when the administration started transporting the injured to the hospital, nearly all of the’sevadars’ fled.”
- The chief minister visited the injured on the district hospital and inquired about their well being. He met eyewitnesses to the stampede on the police strains and gathered details about the incident’s sequence.
- A public curiosity litigation demanding a CBI investigation into the stampede that killed 121 folks at a non secular congregation in Hathras was filed within the Allahabad Excessive Court docket on Wednesday. Advocate Gaurav Dwivedi filed a PIL claiming that district officers are “absolutely accountable” for the carelessness that prompted the stampede.
- Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra slammed the BJP on Wednesday over the Hathras stampede, claiming that such incidents proceed to happen however that the federal government is simply fascinated by “whitewashing” these points.
- Taking to X, Gandhi mentioned, “3 times extra crowd than permitted, no administration on the spot, no crowd administration preparations, no solution to escape from the scorching warmth, no medical staff, no ambulance after the incident, nobody for assist, no docs and amenities within the hospital … such a protracted listing of negligence however nobody is accountable.”
- Who’s answerable for the tragic incident that occurred in Hathras, the Congress normal secretary requested.
- “Generally lots of of individuals die on account of a bridge collapse, generally on account of practice accidents, generally on account of stampedes. As an alternative of whitewashing, it’s the accountability of the federal government to take motion and put together a plan to forestall such accidents,” she mentioned. However accountability will not be mounted and such accidents preserve occurring, Gandhi mentioned, including that this can be a very unhappy state of affairs.
