Let us tell you that so far 121 people have been reported dead in the stampede incident that took place on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the police have registered an FIR against the ‘chief sevadar’ and others in the case of stampede during the satsang in Sikandrarao area of Hathras district.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath reached Hathras today and took stock of the site of the stampede incident and went to the hospital and met the injured. As soon as he reached Hathras, the Chief Minister held a meeting with senior officials and also reviewed the relief work. Let us tell you that the Chief Minister has constituted a team of Additional Director General of Police (Agra) and Aligarh Divisional Commissioner to investigate the incident. The team has to submit the investigation report within 24 hours. After this incident, the Chief Minister had said that our government will get to the bottom of this incident and give appropriate punishment to the conspirators and those responsible. The state government is getting this entire incident investigated. We will get to the bottom of it and see whether it is an accident or a conspiracy. He had said that the government is already sensitive in this matter and no culprit will be spared.
Police action
Let us tell you that so far 121 people have been reported dead in the stampede incident that took place on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the police have registered an FIR against the ‘main sevadar’ and others in the case of stampede during the satsang in Sikandrarao area of Hathras district. The police officer said that on the complaint of Pora police post in-charge sub-inspector Brijesh Pandey, an FIR has been registered against the main sevadar Devprakash Madhukar and other sevadars in Sikandrarao police station. He said that a case has been registered under sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 110 (attempt to commit culpable homicide), 126 (2) (wrongful restraint), 223 (disobedience to order issued by public servant), 238 (destruction of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code.
The complaint said, “The organizers had told the administration that this time 80 thousand followers would gather, hiding the situation of the crowd of lakhs of people who had reached the previous programs. Accordingly, security arrangements were made but more than 2.5 lakh people had reached the satsang, which created chaos. It was alleged, “After the discourse of the main preacher of the satsang, Surajpal alias ‘Bhole Baba’, he was leaving the venue in his car, when the followers started clearing the dust from the path of his car. During this, some people were crushed due to the pressure of the crowd of lakhs.” It said, “The crowd was forcibly stopped by the organizing committee and sevadars, due to which the pressure of the crowd kept increasing and women, children and men were crushed and crushed in it. A large number of innocent people were killed and seriously injured due to the organizers and sevadars.” The complaint alleged, “The police and administration officials present on the spot took the injured and unconscious people to the hospital, but the organizers and sevadars did not cooperate. The conditions of permission regarding traffic control at the event venue were not followed. The organizers destroyed evidence by picking up the belongings, clothes and shoes of the people left at the spot and throwing them in a nearby field.”
Surajpal of Kasganj became ‘Bhole Baba’
As far as the preacher is concerned, let us tell you that Baba Narayan Hari alias Sakar Vishwa Hari ‘Bhole Baba’ left the police job more than two decades ago and turned to spirituality and created a large number of his followers. Baba’s influence and followers can be estimated only from the fact that the list of stampede dead released by the Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday night includes people from Etah and Hathras districts of western Uttar Pradesh, Agra, Sambhal, Lalitpur, Aligarh, Badaun, Kasganj, Mathura, Auraiya, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Bulandshahr, Faridabad and Palwal of Haryana, Gwalior of Madhya Pradesh, Deeg of Rajasthan etc. districts who had come to the satsang. Especially most of the people who go to Baba’s gathering are women.
It is being told that the real name of about 70-year-old ‘Bhole Baba’, a native of Bahadur Nagar of Patiyali police station area of Kasganj district, is Surajpal. He told that Surajpal of Scheduled Caste (SC) left the police job about two decades ago and turned to spirituality and after becoming ‘Bhole Baba’, the number of his devotees started increasing. A large number of people gather in his satsang. One of Surajpal’s three brothers has died and Baba, who gained fame as ‘Bhole Baba’, has appointed a “caretaker” by making his property in Bahadur Nagar a trust. Baba has no children and takes his wife with him to the satsang. It is said that Baba gives sermons and keeps his ‘volunteers’ for security arrangements, who take care of the arrangements of his satsang. ‘Bhole Baba’, who gives sermons, left the police job more than a decade and a half ago and started satsang and became ‘Saakar Vishwa Hari Bhole Baba’. After the establishment of Baba’s ashram in Bahadur Nagar, his popularity among the poor and deprived sections increased rapidly and he gained millions of followers. One specialty of Narayan Hari is that he does not wear saffron clothes, but prefers to wear white suit and tie. His second favorite dress is kurta-pyjama. During his sermons, he says that he does not keep anything from the donations given to him and spends it on his devotees.(source-prabhasakshi)
