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The UP authorities has decided to behaviour a judicial enquiry into the incidental to recognize the basal origin and supply immoderate answers to the victims. (Express photograph by Chitral Khambhati 290125)
The three-member judicial commission, constituted to probe the stampede astatine Mahakumbh connected the juncture of Mauni Amavasya, connected Thursday took complaint of the investigation. At slightest 30 radical were killed and 60 others were injured successful the stampede that took spot successful the wee hours of Wednesday astatine the Sangam successful Prayagraj.
“Since the probe is simply a priority, we person taken complaint wrong hours of the announcement (of the judicial panel). Although we person a period to implicit the probe, we volition marque each effort to reason it arsenic rapidly arsenic possible,” Justice (retd) Harsh Kumar, who is starring the judicial panel, said.
Besides the retired justice of the Allahabad High Court, the different 2 members of the sheet are retired IAS serviceman DK Singh and retired IPS serviceman VK Gupta.
Justice (retd) Kumar said the committee members would soon sojourn Prayagraj to measure the concern firsthand.
According to a authorities notification, the committee has been tasked with examining the causes and circumstances that led to the stampede and providing recommendations to forestall specified incidents successful future. The notification states that the probe study has to beryllium submitted wrong 1 period of the commission’s formation.
While announcing the judicial probe, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, successful a statement, said: “These incidents springiness america lessons arsenic well. We person decided to spell into the roots of this incident. We volition behaviour a judicial enquiry into it. Because, aft truthful galore reviews of the arrangements done and keeping vigilance astatine the section level specified calamity took place. The enquiry is being done to find retired the reasons.”
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar Singh and Director General of Police Prashant Kumar besides reached Prayagraj for a elaborate probe into the stampede. On Wednesday, portion announcing a judicial probe into the incident, the main curate said that UP Police would behaviour a abstracted enquiry into the incident.
In a bid to further fortify the arrangements astatine the Mahakumbh, the Uttar Pradesh authorities volition besides beryllium deploying 2 erstwhile elder officers connected Mela work — Ashish Goyal, who served arsenic divisional commissioner of Prayagraj for the 2019 Kumbh; and Bhanu Goswami, erstwhile vice president of the Agra Development Authority.
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Additionally, 5 peculiar secretary-level officers are being assigned to oversee operations. All of them volition stay successful Prayagraj till February 12 to assistance successful streamlining the arrangements, the CM had said.
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