Stampede-like state of affairs at self-styled godman Dhirendra Shastri’s occasion in Thane

There have been no speedy studies of accidents.

Visuals from the occasion confirmed chaotic scenes with folks gathered in large numbers and safety deployed there utilizing sticks to handle the gang.

Dhirendra Kirshna Shastri is also referred to as Bageshwar Dham Sarkar and is the ‘peethadhishwar’ of Bageshwar Dham, a non secular Hindu website in Gada village of Madhya Pradesh’s Chattarpur district.

Dhirendra Shastri has gained recognition over the previous few years and is understood for telling his followers private particulars about them, what his critics say is simply tricking folks utilizing mentalism.

Final month, a stampede came about throughout a non secular occasion of one other self-style godman – Pandit Pradeep Mishra – at Shatabdi Nagar in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut.

Extra Director Common of Meerut Zone Dhruv Kant Thakur had mentioned that no deaths or accidents had been reported within the incident.

Hathras stampede

In July final 12 months, about 121 folks, largely ladies and youngsters, had been killed in a stampede at Phulrai village beneath Sikandra Rau police station limits of UP’s Hathras district on July 2.

The stampede came about throughout a satsang addressed by self-styled godman Surajpal alias Bhole Baba, a resident of Kasganj district in UP.

The group had rushed to the touch Baba’s toes as he was leaving the venue. Individuals fell over one another to achieve him, leading to stampede. Round 2.5 lakh folks had gathered for the occasion.

Police investigating the case had blamed organisers of the occasion for mismanagement that led to the stampede. In opposition to the permitted gathering of 80,000, the gang exceeded to over 2.50 lakh.

Bhole Baba is a former UP police staffer who labored with the Native Intelligence Unit (LIU) for 18 years and took voluntary retirement in 1990, when he was posted in Etah, as a way to pursue spirituality.