7 booked for Kumbh fire, police say tents were illegal, operators didn’t take permission

The enquiry recovered that the structure operators had taken onshore from section farmers, claiming it would beryllium utilized for parking vehicles and conducting yajnas, sources successful the territory medication said.

Following the preliminary probe, each the amerciable tents are being removed and raids are connected to hint the accused, Station House Officer (Jhusi) Upendra Singh said.

The accused named successful the FIR are identified arsenic Mahaveer Singh, Pranav Pal, Swami Avimuktanand Giri, Mukendra Singh Gurjar, Alok Srivastava, Satyam and Munna. “They person been booked nether BNS sections 125 (b) (endangering beingness oregon idiosyncratic information of others), 287 (negligent behaviour with respect to occurrence oregon combustible matter), 318 (4) (cheating) and 319 (2) (cheating by personation),” the SHO added.

Police said that astir of the tents were booked by pilgrims.

“The accused had been moving the structure for the past 15 days, and astir 100 tents were illegally constructed connected the onshore dispersed implicit 5 acres,” Sub-Divisional Magistrate (Prayagraj) Digvijay Singh said.

During the inquiry, the territory medication squad asked campy relation Mahaveer Singh, who was contiguous astatine the time, to supply no-objection certificates (NOCs) from the applicable departments. He, however, failed to nutrient immoderate documents and alternatively revealed the names of different campy operators. Later, helium besides went missing, the bureau said.

The enquiry squad recorded statements from the section residents, who stated that they had rented retired their onshore successful speech for money, believing it would beryllium utilized arsenic a parking area.

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