Shirgao stampede: All officers' replies in, action after responses are reviewed
State govt has started examining the replies submitted by govt officers in response to show-cause notices issued on the Shirgao Jatra stampede. After the chief secretary examines the replies, they will be placed before govt for necessary action.
Six people were killed and 74 injured in the stampede.
On May 13, state govt issued show-cause notices to eight officers, including the then North Goa collector Sneha Gitte, the then North Goa SP Akshat Kaushal, the then deputy collector of Bicholim, the then DySP of Bicholim, the PIs of Bicholim (transferred since) and Mopa police stations, and the panchayat secretary of Shirgao.
'All govt officers have submitted their replies. We are examining them,' Goa chief secretary V Candavelou told
TOI
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These officials were on duty during the tragedy and have since been transferred. Chief minister Pramod Sawant, making the report of the fact-finding committee public, said the report collectively held the temple committee, district administration, district police, village panchayat, and crowd behaviour, particularly that of 'dhonds', responsible for the tragedy.
Based on the preliminary inquiry, govt transferred Gitte, Kaushal, Bicholim DySP Jivba Dalvi, Bicholim PI Dinesh Gadekar, and Bicholim deputy collector Bhimnath Khorjuvekar, with immediate effect.
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Three of the stampede victims — two women and a 16-year-old boy — were identified as 'dhonds', special devotees of the goddess. The stampede, perhaps the first in the post-Liberation history of Goa, occurred on the second day of the five-day jatra that began on May 3.
The Shree Devi Lairai Devasthan committee said the state administration fell short in making the necessary arrangements for the jatra. The fact-finding committee report held the former North Goa SP and former North Goa collector, among others, responsible for the stampede.
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