It will probe permissions granted, crowd control, other lapses to place accountability
The panel aims to build a timeline of events. Pic/Getty Images
The Supreme Court-appointed panel overseeing the Central Bureau of Investigation’s probe into the Karur stampede will be conducting inspections on the ground on Monday, said sources to a media house.
The stampede in Tamil Nadu’s Karur city is being led by retired Supreme Court judge Justice Ajay Rastogi.
The inspection, said sources, will be for a time period of three days with attention to every spot at ground zero.
The panel will be armed with a checklist for scrutiny and will be trying to build a timeline of the events as they unfolded in order to point out gaps in the system, in order to place accountability on governmental agencies, who looked unprepared for the crowd.
A few days ago, BJP MP Aparajita Sarangi had accused the police and called the tragedy a intelligence failure, “Permission has been given for 10,000 people. When 30,000 people gathered, I fail to understand how this could happen because it is nothing short of intelligence failure on part of the Police... Permission was given for a place which was not to be given. It is almost a chicken neck, a large number of people cannot congregate there. So, it is extremely unfortunate,” she aid. The deadly stampede during actor-turned-politician Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) rally on September 27, claimed 41 lives and left more than 60 people injured.
41
No. of persons who died in the stampede
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