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The accident took place in the grounds of Shri Digambar Jain Degree College on Gandhi Road, Barot. A 65 feet high wooden platform and stairs were made for the consecration of the statue of Lord Adinath on the Maan Pillar here. When the devotees started climbing the stairs, suddenly the stairs fell and fell.<\/p>\n
After this accident, there was a stampede among the devotees. The injured were immediately rushed to the hospital, but e-rickshaws and other means were resorted to due to non-availability of ambulances on the spot.<\/p>\n
On receiving the information of the accident, Baghpat SP Arpit Vijayvargiya reached the spot and started relief work. The injured include women, men and children. Administrative negligence is also being accused in this accident, as such a crowd was allowed to go there without investigating the strength of the stage and the stairs.<\/p>\n
The relatives of the deceased and the local society created a ruckus protesting the post -mortem. He accused the administration of negligence in the security system. DM and SP faced the anger of the people.<\/p>\n
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief over this painful accident and instructed the officials to provide immediate treatment to the injured. He wished the injured to recover early.<\/p>\n
This accident is a great example of ignoring security system in religious events. The organizers allowed hundreds of people to climb on the weak structure of wood, highlight the negligence of administrative authorities.<\/p>\n
The incident has raised big questions about not only the local administration, but also about security management in religious events.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[ad_1] A major accident occurred in Baraut town of Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning. During the Nirvana Laddu festival of Lord Adinath in the ground of Shri Digambar Jain Degree College, the stairs made of wood suddenly collapsed. 7 devotees died in the accident, while more than 80 people were injured. The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-uttar-pradesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/looknewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/looknewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/looknewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looknewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looknewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/looknewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/looknewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looknewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looknewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}