Patna: Two cases have been filed in separate courts in Patna against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in connection with the stampede on Chhath festival that claimed 17 lives.
While the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna, has fixed hearing in a case on November 26, the court of First Class Judicial Magistrate, Patna City has posted the hearing for November 30.
A local social worker Kishori Das filed a complaint under various sections of IPC in the court of CJM Patna, Ramakant Yadav naming the CM, his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi and five others in the incident at Adalatghat on November 19 in which 17 people, including 10 women and children lost their lives.
The CJM admitted it and fixed November 26 for the hearing. The complainant claimed that his wife was among those injured in the incident. Another social worker Ramji Yogesh filed a case on the stampede in Patna city court against nine persons, including the CM and his deputy....
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02:46 AM, Nov 23, 2012
Patna: In the Patna Chhath Puja tragedy, fingers are now being pointed officials responsible for building the make shift bamboo bridge along river. Year after year, the people responsible for the arrangements have gotten away with last minute arrangements. The cries of the family members are heart-rending. Bablu lost his wife and two children at the stampede in Patna's Adalat Ghat on Monday evening. The stampede, triggered by the collapse...
09:08 PM, Nov 20, 2012
Patna: Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha has expressed deep shock at the stampede tragedy during Chhath festival here which left 17 people dead and demanded stringent punishment for those found guilty in the incident. "I am deeply shocked at the tragedy here last evening in which 17 Chhath pilgrims, mostly women and children, died after a makeshift bridge caved in at Adalatganj Ghat," Sinha, in whose Patna Saheb Lok Sabha constituency the...
06:36 PM, Nov 20, 2012
Patna: There is no end to the misery of one of the families of the Patna stampede victims after hospital authorities refused to hand over the body a four-year-old boy to his family saying it has lost the keys to the morgue. Despite the crisis hospital staff was not present in full force due to Chhath holiday, inconveniencing the tragedy-hit people. "We are very worried. No one from the staff...
01:49 PM, Nov 20, 2012
At least 17 people were killed in Patna on Monday at a stampede during the Chhath Puja festivities. The incident took place after a makeshift bamboo bridge collapsed, forcing devotees into a narrow lane. ...
09:02 AM, Nov 20, 2012
Patna: The Bihar government has ordered a high-level inquiry into the tragic deaths of 17 people during a stampede at the Adalat Ganj ghat in Patna that occurred as people thronged the place to celebrate the Chhath festival on Monday. Eyewitnesses had claimed that there was no assistance from the administration even as the situation slowly spiralled out control. The stampede took place after a bamboo bridge collapsed as the...
07:48 AM, Nov 20, 2012
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11:55 PM, Nov 19, 2012
Patna: In a tragic incident in Bihar, a stampede took place at a ghat the Adalat Ganj area in Patna during the Chhath festival on Monday. At least 20 people were feared dead while several others got injured during the stampede. The injured were rushed to the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH). The stampede was triggered after a bridge made of bamboo collapsed due to heavy rush. An eyewitness...
07:39 PM, Nov 19, 2012
Patna: A Muslim convict serving out a life term in Bihar's Bhagalpur Central Jail is observing a fast and performing other rituals of Chhath, the most popular Hindu festival of Bihar, jail officials said on Monday. Mohammad Ghuri, who was convicted for murder and has been lodged in the Bhagalpur Central Jail for over a year, has been religiously observing Chhath rituals, jail official Jitendra Kumar said. "It is difficult...
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Hello and welcome to DRS. My personal video blog, which gives me an opportunity to talk cricketing matters with the visitors of Cricketnext.com and IBNLive.com. This week let's talk about something that seems to be agitating a lot of us: Sachin Tendulkar's decision to accept the nomination to the Rajya Sabha. It has attracted contrasting opinions. There are some who believe that Sachin Tendulkar is taking the first tentative step...
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08:49 PM, May 03, 2008
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