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Kumbh stampede: Jeep driver held from UP
Nasik, Sept 12: A jeep driver has been arrested in connection with the August 27 stampede during Kumbh Mela by a special police squad in Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh, according to police.
Nasik, Sept 12: A jeep driver has been arrested in
connection with the August 27 stampede during Kumbh Mela by a
special police squad in Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh, according
to police.
The special squad had gone to the northern state to trace
three vehicle owners and two Mahants against whom it has
registered offences under various Sections of IPC in
connection with the stampede at Sardar Chowk area in
Panchavati here during the second royal bath.
Police said after the royal bath was over, two Mahants
and his Sadhus entered the Sardar Chowk locality towards
Ramkund in three jeeps and threw coins, Prasad and other
things in the water, which the pilgrims, gathered in narrow
lane rushed in to grab, resulting in the stampede that claimed
around 30 lives and left 11 injured.
Special police squad went to Vrindavan and other places
in Uttar Pradesh and launched search for three vehicles and
arrested a jeep driver yesterday.
Bureau Report
Bureau Report