BBC research reveals hidden deaths at the Indian Film Festival

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A BBC Hindi study reveals that Indian officials paid quietly than paid to families of more people Crush the dead crowd in Kumbh MelanHindu festival is the largest religious collection in the world.

The official death is 37, but BBC discovered 26 additional cases when the families pay money, and 18 more deaths when the payment was not made.

On March 25, a group with common police policing in the Northern Uttar Pradesh (UP) India, tomorrow arrived next to the cash bouquets.

The team visited the city of Gopalganj, where they met the 62-year-old family Tara Devi. They had 500,000 rupees ($ 5,758; 4,291 £) in cash, I asked Dhananjay Gonde, and to record a statement about the video.

In the video, Dhananjay has presented, saying: “My mother Tara Devi and I went to Me in search of the Holy diver. My mother died. The officers came and gave us 500,000 rupees.”

Dhananjay said Mom died crushed crowds The Patritagraj city was founded on January 29th.

The government has not yet released an official list of victims victims. Tara Devi’s son says Police said the first part of the rupees of the rupees that the 2,5-meter had been ordered to the victims. Dhananjay says he did not receive the rest of the 2M rupees.

The government says that the 2,5-meter rupee has paid for 35 victim’s families (37 dead, a victim is unidentified, and another is not legal heirs). Its term of office has been extended to investigate the event established by a three-member Judicial Committee within a month.

BBC, however, found another family with a rupee of 2.5 meters. For another 35 victims, compensation was transferred to the bank accounts of relatives.

In addition, he found the BBC 26 cases – including Tara Devi – where the police paid 500,000 rupees at the people of the people.

In many cases, the officials had signed documents that accused health issues for death, even though the relatives were stressed that they were killed. (The government usually does not compensate for natural deaths during Kumbh, every 12 years.)

BBC also confirmed 18 dead, no compensation (no legal heirs were removed when the case mentioned.

He has also found evidence of four separate square events in Patritaga, the General Minister of Yogi Adityanath, which only happened to the Sangam nose. The confluence of three sacred rivers, vault, Yamuna and the legendary saraswati.

In the week after crushing Kumbh, he collected more than 100 BBC 100 families in 11 states of India, who claimed that his relatives died in tragedy. 82 He verified the death with a total concrete proof, excluding cases of no evidence.

Some families post-mortems, morgue slip, death certificates or photos and videos as proof. BBC’s local local newspaper reports and talked to district journalists, when the bodies were received, these locations mapped, and then visited the victim families.

BBC interviewed families and eye witnesses to reconstruct time lines for each case – when the victims leave the holy diver, crushing, nearby landmark, bathing site and immediate descendant.

Of these specific accounts, clean patterns were created, the identity of the four places in the box brought: Sangam nose, Justu Samudrakep Chauraha, Airavat Marg and Mukti Marg next to the Chaurrah Kalpaviksha.

Most 2.5 m-rup compensation cases “Ward 7. Number, Cantt, Patritagraj”, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles), from Sangam to the nose.

On the contrary, the cases received 500,000 rupees, “20 sector-21, the Kumbh Mela area, Jusi”. Some of these families died near Sangam’s nose, but their certificates mis referred to Jusi – possibly to cancel the tragedy scale.

In terms of 18 families who did not receive any damage, the ordinary threads that are binding threads do not appear.

For example, in a crushing location, BBC identified five bodies through photographs issued in post-death. Of these, the families of the three victims received 500,000 rupees in cash, and the other two did not receive anything. Other families have photos taken from the date of crushing the body of their relatives, but these deaths are not recognized by the government.

The BBC repeatedly tried to contact government officials, the Department of Information and Magistrates of the District by email. Although the District Magistribus Office promises, no call is arranged. The attempts to reach the unanswered police went without attempted, however, were prayers, however, to answer the questions by Tarun Gaba and Mela.

BBC Sangam has also found evidence of the dead in crushes that were made in other nose noses. He admits that the government has given some compensation.

Up’s Jazpur, Dharmraj Rajbhar received 500,000 rupees for each of his wife and daughter’s law in Airavat Marg Crush.

A video made by BBC on January 29 shows a family sitting with two bodies on the site. Back to return home, Rajbhar showed the bundles of money and said: “The government ordered 2.5 million rupees, but the police had only 500,000 rupees and left.”

The police travel traveled hundreds of kilometers to Paschim Bardhaman in West Bengal, where more than 500,000 rupees were given to the Vinod Ruidas family.

Not all families have accepted the amount. Tomorrow, Supain Devik rejected relatives. BBC said they refused to “sign fake documents”.

BBC also identified at least five families next to the Kalpaviksha door, about 3-4 km from the Sangam nose.

Kusum Devi, the wife of Panne Lal Sahni says his husband died around January 29th at 8:00. “People were treading on the body. I sat in the sun with his corpse until 16:00 pm. No one has given us water,” he explains us. The family received 500,000 rupees in cash.

The family members who died next to the Gate Kalpaviksha did with stories similar to the door – they sat with bodies until the morning until the afternoon.

Over time, 18 more families advanced their relatives were killed in crush but they have not yet received compensation.

18 Between the Sultanpur Meena Pandey, he traveled to Kumbh with her husband and Archana Singh neighbor. Archana remembers sitting with the body of Meena on the crushing site until 3:00 pm – until seven hours after crushing.

Although 2,750 AI enabled CCTV, 50,000 safety staff, drones and ambulance claims, no support arrived, relatives said.

In the evening the body began to decline, says Archanak.

“We didn’t take home in another vehicle.”

Like the family of Meena Pandey, Shyamlal Gonden relatives are still waiting for the Deoria of UP.

His son, Bhagirathi Gonde works as a daily salary of Bengaluru. After crushing, he prayed for his father, and came to the hospital on February 3.

According to a hospital slip, Shyamlal Gonds were dead on January 29, 10.02.

“My father appeared unidentified. To maintain records, (hospital staff).

It adds: “It was difficult to identify in the photo. After the fall, his head was bent, pushed his breasts upward, and the face was slightly sparked.”

Bhagirathi says that hospital staff did not give death certificates or any other paper.

“They told me to take the body, but I said I would only follow some official procedures if I’d follow me,” he said.

It took four months before obtaining death certification. But there is still compensation waiting.

“The government has yet to admit that my father was crushed.”

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