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Chorbagan Incident: 7 Arrested Including Puja Official, Sent to Police Custody
- •Seven individuals arrested over the Chorbagan Sarbojanin Durgotsav stampede have been sent to 10 days of police custody.
- •Girish Park police station registered a suo motu case against the puja organizers under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
- •The death toll has risen to 19, with 25 others injured, and one person reported to be in critical condition.
- •Arrests include puja committee secretary Rajkumar Sewda, vice-president Shantanu Dubey, and other key organizers and security personnel.
- •The state government will request the Calcutta High Court Chief Justice for a judicial inquiry led by a sitting judge.
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Seven individuals, including the puja committee secretary, vice-president, and personnel responsible for security, structure construction, and crowd control, were sent to 10 days of police custody. The Girish Park police station registered a suo motu case against the organizers under sections 105, 110, and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) following a stampede that caused 19 deaths and 25 injuries.
Police filed a suo motu case against the puja organizers and others on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, performing acts rashly or negligently to endanger human life, and criminal acts committed by multiple persons sharing a common intention.
To investigate the tragic incident, the state government announced plans to write to the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to request a formal inquiry led by a sitting judge.
