Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah personally met and inquired about the condition of those who were injured in the stampede at Kolkata’s Sorbagan Durga Puja pandal and are undergoing treatment in hospitals.
19 people died and more than 25 were injured in the stampede at Kolkata’s Sorbagan Durga Puja pandal. Union Home Minister Amit Shah and West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari visited Apollo Hospital in Kolkata to meet those injured in the incident.
There, they met the injured and enquired about their well-being. Doctors also explained the condition of the injured. Following this, in an X post issued by Amit Shah on the matter, “I met in person at the hospital the devotees injured in the accident at the Sarbajanin Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata and enquired about their health.
In this difficult situation, the West Bengal government will stand by every injured person and every affected family. I pray to Goddess Durga for the speedy recovery of all those injured.” it said.
In an earlier post on X, Amit Shah said, “I learned the deeply tragic news that several people lost their lives in a stampede at the Sorbagan Sarvajaneen Durga Puja pandal. I spoke to Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari about this. I pray for the peace of the souls of those who died in this tragic accident, and I express my deepest condolences to their families.
The government is making arrangements to ensure the injured receive the best medical treatment. In order to meet them in person, I am postponing all the events I was scheduled to attend in West Bengal. I pray to Mother Durga for the speedy recovery of all those injured,” he said.
Following the deaths of 19 people due to a severe crowd crush at the Sorbagan Durga Puja pandal, the Kolkata Police has issued a curfew order in several parts of the city for three days, from October 18 to October 20, to maintain law and order.
In connection with this stampede incident, the Kolkata Police have so far arrested seven people. Those arrested include the puja committee secretary Raj Kumar Sewda, known as Raja (48), vice-president Shantanu Dubey (55), Biplab Mukherjee, known as Joy (48), who was involved in the pandal work, Kaushik Saha (53), who was also in charge of checking VIP passes, Bintu Dey (51), who was involved in crowd control, and Suman Chakraborty (30) and Rajesh Pal (29), who were in charge of the private security team.