Pall of gloom descends over villages of victims who died in Mandya bus accident
Mass cremation of eight persons at Vadesamudra
Mandya, November 25: A pall of gloom descended over the villages of the victims who died when a private bus they were travelling in plunged into VC canal at Kanaganamaradi village in Pandavapura taluk on Saturday. Total 30 persons died in the accident. Now, there was a grave silence in the houses of the victims.
The family members and relatives who lost their children, wives, husbands and grandparents were inconsolable. No one dared to console Rani, who lost her son Ravikumar who was studying 7th standard when she was mourning. After coming home after the mass cremation, she recalled her son and could not stop crying.
Chikke Gowda-Vasanth who lost her 15-year-old son Prashanth were seen weeping looking at the marks card and medals he won. “He was a bright student in the 7th standard. He has got ‘A’ grade and became first in the class. He has got various medals in competitions”, his parents remembered.
Mass cremation
The cremation of 30 victims who lost their lives in the bus accident was conducted in their respective villages on Sunday. As it was delayed to handover the bodies to the relatives as postmortem was conducted at the place where the accident occurred, the cremation was conducted on Sunday. But some persons were cremated on Saturday late night.
Pavithra (11), Kariyamma (65), Chikkaiah (40), Kamalamma (55), Prashanth (15), Rathnamma (60), Shashikala (45), Ravikumar (12) of Vadesamudra were cremated enmass in the village. Apart from them, GK Likhitha (5), Preksha (2), Manjula (60), Chandru (35), Papanna (66), Poojary Kempaiah (50), Yashodha (18), Divya, Jayamma (50), Soumya (5), Kalpana (11), Ningamma (70), Rathnamma (50), Eraiah (60), Savitramma (40), Preethi (15), Anusha (17), Sumathi (35), Soumya (30), Shivamma (50), Mani (35), ravikumar (15) were cremated in their respective villages.
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UP journalist booked over LPG queue visuals, elderly man dies same day outside gas agency
Lucknow: A television journalist in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad has been booked for allegedly circulating misleading visuals of people standing in queues outside a gas agency, even as a 70-year-old man died the same day after collapsing near an LPG outlet in the district.
An FIR was registered on March 13 at Kamalganj police station against Anubhav Mishra, a reporter with Noida-based Hindi Khabar channel, under Section 353(1)(b) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which deals with public mischief through circulation of false content or rumours via electronic means.
Newslaundry quoted police as saying that the case relates to visuals showing long queues outside a gas agency in Kamalganj. The videos were aired and posted on social media by the channel. According to officials, the footage was two days old and did not reflect the current situation.
A senior police official said the images were misleading and created panic about an alleged LPG shortage. The administration has maintained that there was no shortage of cylinders in the district and that distribution was proceeding normally.
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On the same day the FIR was lodged, Mukhtiyar Ahmed, a 70-year-old zardozi worker from Lal Sarai in Farrukhabad, collapsed outside a Bharat Gas agency and was later declared dead at a private nursing home. Family members said he had stepped out early in the morning to collect a cylinder after failing to receive booking confirmation through his mobile phone a day earlier.
Relatives claimed he had been standing in a queue for nearly two hours before he fell ill. Videos circulating locally showed bystanders attempting to revive him before he was taken to hospital. He had been undergoing treatment for a heart ailment in Kanpur for the past six months, family members said.
District Supply Officer Surender Kumar said there was no cylinder shortage and disputed claims of long waiting hours. He said the deceased had reached the agency around 8.30 am and fell ill within a short span. Kumar added that due to a high volume of bookings, the server had temporarily failed to generate delivery authentication codes, but vendors were issuing paper receipts to consumers.
Earlier, based on inputs shared by Mishra, Hindi Khabar had posted a social media update referring to chaos over LPG supply in Farrukhabad and difficulties faced by consumers due to booking issues. The post was later taken down.
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Police sources said the FIR was filed after it was found that the visuals used were recorded on March 11 and were circulated on March 13 in a manner that could create unrest. Sub-Inspector Sandeep Kumar, the complainant in the case, stated that when police visited the spot, no such long queues were found.
Mishra worked as a reporter for five years. He said he had forwarded the visuals to his channel on the same day he received them and maintained that several agencies in the district were facing booking-related issues. He noted that if authorities found any factual inaccuracies, they could have sought clarification instead of registering an FIR.
The family of the deceased has not lodged any complaint. District Supply Officer Surender Kumar and Farrukhabad Superintendent of Police Aarti Singh along with other officers visited the family later in the day and a cylinder was delivered to their residence.
