Magisterial team begins probe into stage collapse accident in UP’s Baghpat

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Injured devotees being taken for attraction aft a watchtower collapsed during 'Laddu Mahotsav', astatine Baraut, successful Baghpat, Haryana, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (PTI Photo)

A six-member squad Wednesday began a probe into the decease of 7 radical during a Jain assemblage lawsuit successful Baraut municipality of Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat territory adjacent arsenic the ‘Manastambha’ analyzable was sealed.

Besides the 7 casualties, 50 others, including 11 constabulary personnel, were injured aft a makeshift woody operation collapsed during the ‘Nirvana Laddu Parv’ of Bhagwan Adinath, the archetypal Tirthankara of Jainism Tuesday morning.

Asmita Lal, District Magistrate, Baghpat, ordered a magisterial enquiry into the mishap Tuesday, and formed the probe sheet led by Subhash Singh, Additional District Magistrate (Judicial), Baghpat. The probe sheet volition taxable its study successful 1 week.

Singh said the probe sheet talked to members of the Jain assemblage connected Wednesday. “We volition grounds statements of each those progressive successful organising the lawsuit and cod disposable grounds to find retired what caused the illness of the woody structure. We volition taxable our findings to the DM wrong the fixed deadline of 7 days.”

Lal said astir a twelve of those who were injured volition beryllium discharged connected Thursday. “While a fewer who suffered grievous injuries person been referred to higher aesculapian centres successful Delhi and Meerut for precocious treatment. Family members of six who died successful the incidental person refused to licence the post-mortem of bodies. They were cremated without the autopsy portion the assemblage of a teacher, Arun Jain, was handed implicit to his household members aft a post-mortem examination,” she added.

Meanwhile, Suresh Jain Rituraj, the Meerut portion main of the ruling BJP and patron of the Jain Samaj Samiti, which has been organising the lawsuit successful Baraut since 1999, assured members of the Jain assemblage that helium would petition an assignment with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath truthful that they could conscionable him. “They person demanded a compensation of Rs 1 crore for the families of those who died and Rs 50 lakh for those injured. I volition guarantee they conscionable the CM and enactment their request earlier him,” said Rituraj.

On Wednesday, Union ministers Jayant Chaudhary and K P Malik met with the household members of those who died to explicit their condolences. They besides visited the hospitals wherever the injured were receiving treatment.

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People crossed Baghpat held prayers and soundless processions successful enactment of the families of the deceased and to amusement solidarity with those who person been hospitalised since the accident. Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) person Dr Shakeel Ahmed held a homage astatine his location successful Baghpat connected Wednesday evening, wherever attendees paid tributes to the casualties and prayed for the betterment of the injured.

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