Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on July 5 met victims of Hathras stampede which killed 121 people and injured 31 on July 2. The Congress leader first stopped at Pilakhna village in Aligarh to meet relatives of victims. Four persons from Pilakhni village had died in the stampede. This was the first visit … Read more
The lawyer spoke to reporters outside the ashram in Mainpuri where Bhole Baba is believed to be staying. Making a late-night appearance outside the ashram in Mainpuri where Bhole Baba aka Narayan Saakar Hari is believed to be staying, the self-styled godman’s lawyer said he does not know where he is and does not need … Read more
The UP government has announced an aid of Rs 2 lakh to the family of the dead. Hathras (UP): The bodies of all victims of the Hathras stampede have been identified and handed over to their families, District Magistrate Ashish Kumar said on Thursday. A total of 121 people, mostly women, died and 31 were … Read more
Hathras Satsang Case: Six people have been arrested so far. Announcing their first arrests in the stampede at the Hathras religious event which killed 121 people, the Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday said they have taken six people into custody, but there was one notable omission – Bhole Baba aka Narayan Saakar Hari, the self-styled … Read more
Six people, including some of the organisers, have been arrested in a satsang or prayer meeting that ended in a deadly stampede in Uttar Pradesh. A former police constable-turned-preacher Bhole Baba’s prayer meeting in Hathras, some 200 km from Delhi, saw the deaths of 121 people, the vast majority women, after a rush to the … Read more
New Delhi: A son’s desperate search for his mother – one of many heartbreaking stories from Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras after 123 people were killed in a stampede at a poorly-planned public meeting by ‘godman’ Bhole Baba, who preached divinity from a swank ‘ashram’ built on 13 acres of land worth Rs 4 crore. Meenesh Kumar’s plight … Read more
Agra: Two congregations of religious preacher Saakar Vishwa Hari Bhole Baba in this district have been cancelled after the stampede incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras that claimed 121 lives, officials said on Wednesday. One of the ‘Satsang Sabhas’ was supposed to be held from July 4 to 11 in Saiyan and the other from July … Read more
The ‘godman’ has blamed “anti-social elements” for the tragedy. Lucknow: A day after the stampede in Hathras in which 121 people were killed, most of them women, children and the elderly, more details are coming out about the self-styled godman, Bhole Baba aka Narayan Saakar Hari, at the centre of the tragedy. Within hours of … Read more
Bhole Baba never meets anyone after 8 pm as part of the security protocol (File) New Delhi: Self-styled godman Suraj Pal, known as Bhole Baba, commands quite a following in Uttar Pradesh. A sprawling ashram built with crores in donations in UP’s Mainpuri is a testament to his hold and popularity among his devotees. Bhole … Read more
The victims were part of the crowd which had gathered Hathras for the ‘satsang’. Agra: “I turned over more than 100 dead bodies to check their faces,” a brother, whose 50-year-old sister has been missing since the stampede incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras, said here on Wednesday. After visiting the postmortem houses in Hathras, Etah … Read more
Bhole Baba, the ‘godman’ whose ‘prayer meet’ in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras Wednesday ended in a stampede that killed 121 people, and who has been absconding since, issued a statement this evening declaring he will take legal action against “anti-social elements” that allegedly engineered the horrific chaos. Bhole Baba, whose real name is Suraj Pal Singh, … Read more
Spiritual leader Bhole Baba, former police constable-turned-preacher, is missing since his latest sermon ended in a stampede that killed 121 of his followers on Tuesday evening in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras. A police report says more than 250,000 people attended Tuesday’s satsang or prayer meeting at Hathras, some 200 kilometre from national capital Delhi, despite permission … Read more