Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, on Sunday, suspended two more officials of Varanasi in connection withSaturday’s stampede on Rajpur Ganga Bridge in which 25 people including 21 women lost their lives.
Yadav has now suspended ADM (City), Vindyavasini Raj and City Magistrate, BB Singh, both of Varanasi with immediate effect. Now the total suspension in the incident rose to 7 with already five police officials were put on suspension on Saturday night.
Earlier to it, Superintendent of police (SP) city Sudhakar Yadav, SP (Traffic) Kamal Kishore, Circle Officer (CO) Rahul Misra and in charge of Ram Nagar and Mughalsarai police station were suspended for gross negligence leading to deaths in stampede. The action was taken on the basis of the report of the principal secretary (Home) and the DGP. On Saturday, the CM had directed the Commissioner, Varanasi, to institute a magisterial inquiry into the incident.