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A revealed letter indicated that the organizers – the family of a local congressional councilor – had also sought to take security measures at the place where Punjab Minister Navjot Sidhu and his ex-wife-in-law Provincial, Navjot Kaur Sidhu, would be expected.
But eyewitnesses have complained that the provisions made for the safety of people on the ground along the tracks near Joda Phatak are not sufficient.
"Why has the government failed to put in place adequate security measures, and why has such a function been allowed to take place near railways?" Sujit Singh asked.
A video broadcast on social media fueled the charges against Navjot Kaur Sidhu, the main guest of the event. This would have shown that she had been informed by someone else on the platform that people were standing on the railroad tracks.
Opposition parties, including Akali Dal, BJP and AAP, demanded that action be taken against those who authorized the event. Akali Dal demands the dismissal of Navjot Singh Sidhu from the Punjab congressional government.
Funeral pyres were lit Saturday at the city's cremation site, in memory of 39 people killed when a Jalandhar train destroyed people lying on the railway to better see that Ravana was in flames.
The railways officials stated that no authorization was required of them either and excluded any investigation by the Ministry on what they termed the worst accident due to an "intrusion" on a railway. railway.
Government Railroad Police (GRP) registered a RIP against "strangers" and Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh, announced the opening of a judicial investigation, which will submit his report within four weeks.
Singh, who visited the scene of the accident and the hospitals where the wounded are admitted, said that 59 people had been killed and 57 wounded. Subdivisional Magistrate Rajesh Sharma, however, said 61 people had died.
Amrik Singh Powar, Deputy Police Commissioner in Amritsar, stated that the organizers had received a "no objection certificate" provided that they also obtain the authorization of the municipality and the service of fight against pollution.
The municipality of Amritsar has distanced itself from the tragedy.
"No one was allowed to organize the Dussehra event, and no one had asked for permission from the Amritsar municipality," he said. Commissioner Sonali Giri to the press.
Railway Commission President Ashwani Lohani, who visited the scene at midnight, said the railways were not aware of the rally.
"In the middle of the sections (between level crossings), trains run at the speed badigned to them and no one should be on the tracks." In the middle of the sections, no railway employee is allowed to be on the track. is in office, "he said.
In the morning, traces of corpses and parts of corpses scattered after the accident had been removed from the runway.
Crowds gathered in front of hospitals and squatted on the tracks in protest on Saturday.
The tension rises as the police, who barricade the neighborhood, try to chase them away from the tracks.
Some people also threw stones at the home of Saurabh Madan Mithu, son of Congressman Vijay Madan, whose family had organized the event.
The two were not seen after the tragedy.
Angry slogans, such as "The Congress Government, hai hai" were heard in the locality near Joda Phatak and shouts broke the silence outside the hospitals.
It was a night of indescribable horrors, said Vijay Kumar, who lost his 18-year-old son, Manish.
A photo of WhatsApp showing a severed head is displayed on the screen of his phone at 3 am, confirming his worst fears. His son was one of those who were killed.
His younger son Ashish came home safe and sound, said Kumar, but Manish's frenzied search ended with a "ping" on his phone. Since then, he has been walking from hospital to hospital looking for the remains of his eldest son.
A leg and a hand were found, but they are not Manish.
"My son wore blue jeans, he does not wear them, I lost my world," said an inconsolable Kumar in front of Guru Nanak hospital, where most of wounded were transported.
People crowded around the hospital compound, some stunned by the enormity of the tragedy that brought down their loved ones and others holding back their tears.
Among those admitted to the hospital was Sapna, who was taking part in a WhatsApp call with her husband to tell him about the life of "Ravana Dahan" during the accident.
The 30-year-old girl reported seeing body parts scattered around the tracks and a severed head.
"When the image was burned, people started to move away from the scene and head for the tracks," she said.
Sapna lost her cousin and her one – year – old niece, whom she said were not crushed by the train but in the ensuing disorder.
Jagunandan, a 40-year-old hardened worker in Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh, who was injured in the head and leg, said he was not standing near the tracks, but that he had been pushed when people started to flee after the fire.
Most of the injured stated that they could not hear the horn of the approaching train. They said that another train had pbaded a few moments earlier.
The sound of firecrackers while the effigy went down and the high-speed train was causing trouble, it was said.
Rail traffic in the region was affected with 37 canceled trains and 16 diverted trains.
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