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The investigation of BBC Hindi reveals that Indian officials had paid softly with compensation to the families of more people than they admitted in a Deadly crowd Crush at the Kumbh MelaA Hindu Festival, which is the world’s largest religious set.
The official number of deaths is 37, but the BBC has found 26 additional cases in which families received partial compensation in cash and still 18 deaths in which no payment was made.
25. March arrived in the neighboring Bihar, the team of ordinary police officers from India North Uttar Pradesh (UP) in the neighboring Bihar with cash package.
The team visited Gopalganj, where they met a family of 62-year-old Tara Devi. They took over 500,000 rupees ($ 5.758; $ 5.758; $ 4,291) her son, Dhananjai Gond and asked him to record a video statement.
In the video, Dhananjai introduces, saying, “My mother Tara Devi and I went to Kumbh Mela for St. Potch. My cops came and gave us 500,000 rupees.”
Dhananjai says his mother was killed in crowd In the city of Praigraj at 29. January.
The government has not published the official list of victims of Crush yet. Tana Tara Devi says that the police told him that the money received for the first installments to 2.5 million rupees officially promised families of victims. Dhananjai says he didn’t get the remaining 2m rupees.
ReutersThe UP Government says that everyone paid 2.5 million rupees according to the families of 35 victims (of 37 deaths, one victim remains unidentified, and the other has no legal successor). The three-member Judicial Commission was established to investigate the incident and submit a report within a month to extend its mandate.
The BBC, however, found another family given by a check of 2.5 million rupees. For other 35 victims, compensation was transferred to relative bank accounts.
In addition to this, the BBC has found 26 cases – including the one of Tara Devi – where the police paid 500,000 rupees in cash in people’s homes.
In many cases, officials have had documentation of documents that blame health problems for death, despite insisting that their relatives died in sympathy. (The Government usually does not compensate for natural deaths during Kumba, held every 12 years.)
The BBC also confirmed 18 deaths in which compensation was not given (excluding the above case where there was no legal successor).
She also found evidence of four separate incidents in Moiegraj 29. January, despite the main minister, only what was called the nosed chansam nose, Ganga, Yamuna and Mitic Sarasvati.
In the weeks after Kumbh Crush, the BBC met over 100 families in India, who claimed that their relatives died in the tragedy. It has been verified by 82 deaths with specific evidence, excluding cases lacking evidence.
Some families keep post-mortems, morgues, leaves, death certificates or photos and videos as evidence. The BBC cross-checked the local newspaper reported and discussed the District Reporters to seek where the bodies were received, soaked these locations, and then visited the victims of the victims.
The BBC interviewed the family and eyewitnesses for the reconstruction of deadlines – when victims remained in the Holy DIP, time of sympathy, near landmarks, distance from bathing place and immediate after the road.
With these detailed accounts, clear forms appeared, which led to the identity of four crushing sites: Sangamese nose, Jhusijska samudravup Chaurah, Airavat Marg Chaurah at the MARG CHAURAH at the KalPanko Gate.
Most compensatory cases of 2.5 m-rupages compensation are stated on the location of death as “Ward no. 7, fortress, prayer”, about 1.5 km from Sangam.
In contrast, cases received by Rupees 500,000 mainly mention “Sector-20 or Sector-21, Kumbh Mela Area, Jhusi”. Some of these families claim that their relatives also died near Sangam’s nose, but that their certificates mistakenly quoted Jhusi – they are probably diminishing the tragedy scales there.
Regarding 18 families that did not receive compensation, they seem to make them the usual thread that binds them.
For example, in a single crushing location, the BBC identified five bodies through photos and numbers issued during the formality after death. Of these, the three victims received 500,000 rupees in cash, while the other two did not receive anything. Some other families have photos from the day of sympathy showing the bodies of their relatives, but the government has not recognized this death.
The BBC was repeatedly trying to contact government officials, sending data on the information department and the district. Despite the promises of the District Magistrate Office, the call was not agreed. Attempts to reach the police chief was without answering, while Juigrant Police Commissioner at the time of the incident, Tarun Gaba, and the Mela Officer Vijay Kiran Adan, refused to answer the questions.
The BBC also found evidence of death in crushing that took place at the locations not in Pansum, which the government has recognized the giving of some compensation.
In Gora Jaunpur, Dharmbir Rajbhar received each of 500,000 rupees for his wife and daughter-in-law in Airavat Marg Crush.
The Video of the BBC 29. January shows a family sitting with both bodies in place. Back home, Rajbhar showed cash packages and said, “The government promised 2.5 million rupees, but the police only gave 500,000 rupees each and only 500,000 rupees left.”
UP Police also traveled hundreds of miles towards Paschim Bardhaman in West Bengal, where they surrendered over 500,000 rupees with Ruidas Vinodas family.
Not all families accept the quantity. In Bihar, the cousins of Suna’s Devine rejected it. They said BBC that they refused to “sign false documents.”
The BBC also identified at least five families that lost relatives near the Kalpanko Gate, about 3-4km from Sangam Nose.
Kusum Devi, Wife Panne Lal Sahni, says her husband died about 8 hours. January. “People went over his body. I was sitting in the sun with his corpse until 4pm. Nobody gave us water,” she says. The family received 500,000 rupees in cash.
Relatives of all five people who died near the Kalpankikha Gate, had similar stories about the narrative – they sat with the bodies from morning to dinner.
Over time, 18 more families were further claiming that their relatives died in sympathy, but they have not yet received a fee.
Among the age of 18, Meena Pandei from Sultanpura, UP, who traveled to Kumbh with his wife, and the neighbor of Archana Singh. Archana remembers she was sitting with Meen’s body on mortification in demolition until 3:00 p.m. – seven o’clock after demolition.
Despite the claims of 2,750 CCTVs enabled CCTV, 50,000 security staff, drone and ambulance, no help has arrived, relatives said.
Afternoon, the body began to fail, says Archana.
“We didn’t have any choice but to carry him home in our vehicle.”
Uttar Pradesh Department for InformationLike the Meena Pandey family, the relatives of Shiamlal Gond from Deiria still awaiting compensation.
His son Bhagirathi Gond, works as day workers on salaries in Bengaluru. After demolition, he traveled to Praigraj asked his father and arrived at the hospital 3. February.
According to the skating from the hospital, Shiamal Gond was brought to 10.02 local time at 10. January.
“My father is listed as unidentified. To keep the records, they [hospital staff] He kept the file. They painted the body in a state of being able to be found and tried in the register. “
He adds, “It was hard to identify him through the photo. After the fall, his head baptized, his chest pushed up, and his face turned lightly.”
Bhagirathi says hospital staff would not give him a death certificate or any other papers.
“They told me to take the body, but I just said I would only do it if some official proceedings followed,” he said.
It took four months before he received a death certificate. But there is still a fee for his loss.
“The government still didn’t admit that my father died in the hiss.”
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