2 July, 2024…In Phulrai Mughalgarhi village of Hathras district, there was a stampede in the satsang of Hari alias Bhole Baba. 121 people lost their lives. Hundreds of people were injured. This case will be completed 1 year tomorrow. All 11 accused who went to jail are out on bail. Dainik Bhaskar 3200 pages
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In this, the sub-inspector, who has the FIR, has directly stated that Narayan Sakar Hari alias Surajpal alias Bhole Baba asked his servants to run sticks on the crowd. After this, the sevadars pushed the crowd, killed sticks. This is why stampede occurred. Despite this statement of the inspector, Baba’s name was neither in the FIR nor in the charge sheet.
What changed in this one year? What came out in police investigation? What is the status of the court case? Where satsang took place, what is the situation now? To know all this Dainik Bhaskar Ground reached zero in Hathras.
Read, the first report of this series…
Now the condition of the scene
The bricks used in satsang are still lying there We first reached the spot, where there was a stampede. This place is about 40 km from Hathras district on the Mathura-Bareilly highway. The name of the village is Phulrai Mughalgarhhi. There are fields on the highway outside the village, in which the event was held. Satsang pandal was built in the field 1130 meters from the highway road. We found many people here, who run shops around.
He was not ready to speak on camera. He was afraid that speaking something on the camera could cause problems. However, people have not forgotten that day. When the stampede took place, there were the same people who started the rescue and rescue. These shopkeepers told us the circumstances of that day how people were here and there and they were picking them up and sent to the hospital.
This is the farm where Bhole Baba’s satsang took place in 2024. The bricks brought for the event are still lying here.
Now the crop is standing in these fields. Plotting has started in many fields. There are some old bricks lying in a field. Shopkeepers say that these are the same bricks that were used in making ways during satsang. Even today some fields are very high. They are full of rain water. It is also said that when a stampede took place, there was a similar scene. The fields were high and low. Due to the accumulation of rain water, people slipped and killed on each other.
Journalists who told 122 deaths said- Ambulances were not present After the stampede, when everyone wanted to know how many deaths have occurred, then Dainik Bhaskar Reporter of Manoj Maheshwari of the hospital counted the corpses in the hospital and told their number 122. Several hours later, the police-administration released the official data of deaths 121.
While showing the scene, Manoj Maheshwari says- I was present in Hathras. Then it was reported that there was a stampede in Sikandrau. There have been many casualties in it. I came to this place on the spot. The scene I saw was quite touching. There was chaos here. People’s dead bodies were lying.
Some people were injured, who were screaming. There was a rush everywhere. Ambulances were not present. The locals who were, were sent to the community health center Sikandrau by picking up those injured. The administration came very late. The police force was also very low during the stampede.
After the accident, there was no arrangement for people to take people to the hospital.
The main accused said- 60 policemen were for 80 thousand crowds Police has made the main accused in this case Devprakash Madhukar. He was also the main organizer and serviceman of that satsang. Devprakash was left on bail from the Allahabad High Court in May 2025 itself. We reached his house in Damdpura on the side of the railway line in Sikandrau town. A show case has been made in the drawing room on the ground floor. There are 6 different pictures of Nirankar Baba inside it.
This is the house of Devprakash Madhukar, the main accused in the Hathras stampede. Madhukar says that justice will be available from the court.
Devprakash Madhukar says- We have no fault. We are completely innocent. Still a charge sheet was put on us. We duly took permission of the program. In this, public representatives, farm owners, police, administration were all permission. Only after this we were organizing the event. Whatever chaos has occurred, the administration was negligent. The right cancer was done by mischievous elements, who sprayed poisonous on some women in the crowd. Due to this, there was a stampede in the crowd. We hope from the court to be acquitted.
Devprakash says- The distance from the road to the satsang site was 1130 meters. The stampede took place on the road. Police are saying that this stampede took place due to taking the dust (dust) of Baba’s feet. We say that when Baba descends from the stage, Charan Raj is taken only on the road, not 1130 meters away. Therefore, the theory with the charan raj of the police is wrong. Secondly, the satsang was happening on one side of the road, the stampede took place on the other side of the road. Therefore, there is no fault of the organizers. We are completely innocent.
There are many pictures of Nirankar Baba in Devprakash Madhukar’s house.
Devprakash used to work at a contract at a block headquarters. His name was missed after his name was included in the main accused in the stampede. His wife shows her waist and says that I had an operation a few days ago. The family has broken badly since this incident. We are living in some way.
We asked- Are Baba’s servants still? Devprakash says on this- I used to serve human, still do it. Where I need for human service, I will be present there.
Where are Baba now? Devprakash says on this- I am released from jail a month ago. Since then, the house, clan and relatives have started coming and going. I am busy meeting a lawyer myself and other work. Therefore, I could not even go towards the ashram. I do not know where Baba is now?
Lawyer said- air-air talk in police theory From Devprakash’s house, we directly reached Advocate Yogansh Parashar. Yogansh, 2 accused in the stampede case are the lawyers of Manju Yadav and Sanju Yadav. He taught us a 3200 -page charge sheet. The police have made a total of 64 witnesses in the charge sheet. It includes police, doctors and public people.
Policemen, doctors treating the injured and doctors doing postmortem have been made witnesses in this case. Some people are also witnesses who came in satsang.
Advocate Yogansh Parashar says- Police definitely imposed a 3200-page charge sheet, but there is nothing evidence. There are only wind and air things in the theory of police. If the police gave permission to 80 thousand people, then arrangements should have been made accordingly. The police-administration has made all the allegations on the organizers, dismissing their responsibilities. We hope that during the trial we will keep our side firmly.
Read the statement of the inspector who filed an FIR
Baba told the sevadars- what are you looking for, remove and do it out We got the most important statement in this entire case. This statement is of Sub Inspector Brijesh Pandey, who recorded the FIR, which he has given before the investigation team. In this statement, for the first time, the name of Hari alias Bhole Baba was taken in any form. However, Baba’s name was not included in the charge sheet despite this statement.
SI Brijesh Pandey said in the statement- Jagatguru Sakaar Vishwari Bhole Baba’s satsang was proposed to be organized near GT Road between Phulrai Mughalgarhhi. The organizer Devprakash Madhukar had sought permission of 80 thousand people, hiding the crowd of millions gathering in it. According to the same crowd, the police-administration had arranged security, peace, traffic. However, more than 2.5 lakh crowds gathered in this program. This disrupted traffic on GT Road.
There was a crowd of millions during the discourse of Surajpal alias Bhole Baba.
SI Brijesh Pandey said- After the discourse of the chief preaching Surajpal alias Bhole Baba, the devotees started catching dust on his way. Due to the pressure of the crowd of millions of devotees, women and men sitting down to collapse dust started to be suppressed. On the other side of GT Road, 3 meters deep pits were filled with water. People also started falling in them. Organizing committee and sevadars stopped the crowd from running away on the strength of the poles. This increased the pressure of the crowd and people were crushed.
The police-administration sent the injured to the hospital, but the organizers did not help. He made efforts to hide the evidence by throwing crowded shoes and slippers and missing goods into a standing crop in nearby fields. The arrangement of the entire program was in the hands of the organizing committee. He was also not allowing the police-administration people to go inside the pandal. The public was forbidden to take photographs.
These photos are from 2 July 2024. From this, the crowd can be gauged.
According to SI’s statement- When Baba was leaving the satsang site, the crowd went towards him to get the dust of the feet. Then Baba pushed the crowd and told his organizers (sevadars)- what are you looking for? Remove these people, do it out. On this, the servants and Baba pushed the crowd. The sevadars killed sticks. This led to stampede and women and children died.
The accused admitted- Baba asked to kill the poles To support Baba’s statement, Hathras police have also recorded statements of some of his followers/accused. There is an accused in this, Ram fights. According to this- I am a devotee of Baba. I serve Narayan Vishwa Hari for the last 4 years. Wherever satsang takes place, I go there and handle the system of traffic. On July 2, I was involved in the same satsang. When the crowd ran to take Charan Raj, at the behest of Baba, we pushed the crowd and tried to remove them with sticks. This caused a stampede and killed people.
What are the evidence with the police?
- The police have witnessed 64 people. It includes policemen, doctors and people present in satsang.
- The devotees whose shoes, slippers and clothes were left on the spot have photos.
- The police have those pamphlets, on the basis of which 11 people were sent to jail. 71 people involved in this pamphlets are under investigation.
- The police took the statement of the accused and claimed in the charge sheet that Baba provoked the sticks to run the sticks.
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