NEW DELHI: The key accused of the Hathras stampede, Devprakash Madhukar, surrendered on Friday and has been taken into custody by the Uttar Pradesh Police. Madhukar was the principle organiser of the ‘satsang‘ (non secular prayer meet) the place a stampede claimed the lives of 121 individuals.
Madhukar’s lawyer, AP Singh claimed that Madhukar surrendered to the Delhi Police in Najafgarh and following his give up, the Delhi Police handed him over to the UP Police.
Earlier, Uttar Pradesh police had introduced a Rs 1 lakh bounty on Madhukar. The state authorities businesses had launched intensive searches throughout the state and in neighbouring Rajasthan and Haryana to hint the Hathras stampede key accused. The police can also be on the lookout for self-styled godman Surajpal alias Narayan Sakar Hari alias Bhole Baba for questioning. He’s on the run after the incident.
On Thursday, the police had knowledgeable that six arrests had been made within the case.
A complete of 121 individuals, largely ladies, had been killed within the stampede after the preacher’s satsang in Hathras’ Fulrai village on July 2.
Whereas Madhukar, the ‘mukhya sevadar’ (chief organiser of the satsang), is known as as accused within the FIR. It, nevertheless, doesn’t point out Bhole Baba because the accused.
An FIR within the matter was lodged on July 2 underneath Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Sections 105 (culpable murder not amounting to homicide), 110 (try to commit culpable murder), 126 (2) (wrongful restraint), 223 (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by the general public servant), 238 (inflicting disappearance of proof).
In the meantime, the Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) additionally submitted its report on the stampede.
“Proof collected to this point suggests culpability of the organisers,” mentioned ADG Anupam Kulshrestha, chief of SIT to information company PTI.
With the probe persevering with within the case, the senior IPS officer insisted the “conspiracy angle” can’t be dominated out.
“These culpable will face authorized motion,” Kulshrestha mentioned.
A report has been submitted to the federal government by the Extra Director Basic of Police (Agra Zone) Anupam Kulshrestha who was among the many prime officers who visited Hathras to supervise rescue and reduction measures after the stampede in Hathras on July 2.
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