Hathras stampede: Six organisers of religious gathering arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police
The bodies of all 121 victims who died in the incident were been identified and their post-mortems completed, the authorities said.
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The Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday arrested six persons, including two women, who had organised the religious gathering in Hathras district where a stampede on Tuesday killed 121 persons and injured several others, ANI reported.
The incident took place at a gathering convened by religious preacher Narayan Saakar Hari, popularly known as Bhole Baba, at Fulrai village in Sikandrarau tehsil.
The six persons arrested on Thursday are Ram Ladete from Mainpuri, Upendra Singh Yadav from Firozabad, Mek Singh from Hathras, and Manju Yadav, Mukesh Kumar and Manju Devi from Sikandrarao, Aligarh Inspector-General of Police Shalabh Mathur confirmed to The Indian Express.
Mathur said that all six were members of the event’s organising committee and worked as “sevadars [religious volunteers]”, according to ANI. “When the stampede occurred the six servitors who are now arrested had run away from the site,” he added.
The police officer also announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for information leading to the arrest of Devprakash Madhukar, who is the chief sevadar and the main accused person in the case. “Soon, a non-bailable warrant will be issued against him,” added Mathur.
Mathur said that the bodies of all 121 victims had been identified and their post-mortems completed. “We will also investigate if this incident occurred due to a conspiracy,” he said.
On Wednesday, a lawyer representing the...
