On a plea filed on the stampede within the Maha Kumbh on January 29, the Uttar Pradesh authorities has knowledgeable the Allahabad Excessive Court docket that vide a notification dated February 22, it has prolonged the time period of the judicial fee probing the incident, and the scope of the inquiry now contains probe into deaths and lack of property.
The fee will now additionally look into how the Maha Kumbh Mela administration coordinated with the district administration following the stampede that clamed 30 lives and injured a number of others. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Kshitij Shailendra then disposed of the PIL filed by advocate Suresh Chandra Pandey.
The petitioner argued that the judicial fee constituted by the federal government was requested to conduct a ‘restricted’ investigation, which didn’t embody lack of life or property.
The PIL identified that the fee’s investigation solely included how the incident occurred, and the way such incidents might be prevented sooner or later.
The state authorities apprised the excessive court docket that the present phrases of reference (of the inquiry) have been expanded to probe into the lack of life and property as a result of stampede, and to inquire the coordination between the Mela and district administrations and the well being division in the course of the stampede.
“In view of the enlargement of the scope of inquiry vide a notification dated 22.02.2025, the plea raised has been taken care of…” the bench noticed.
