Panel members begin probe into Kumbh stampede

The panel, headed by retired Allahabad high court judge Harsh Kumar and comprising retired IPS officer VK Gupta and retired IAS officer DK Singh, reached Sangam, where at least 30 people were killed in a predawn stampede on Wednesday.

Maha Kumbh Nagar’s deputy inspector general (DIG) Vaibhav Krishna, who accompanied the panel along with mela incharge Vijay Kiran Anand and senior superintendent of police (SSP) Rajesh Dwivedi, said officials were scanning CCTV footage from Wednesday to see if other disasters also occurred at the ghat, which might have gone unreported.

“We have CCTV cameras installed throughout the mela area. We are analysing the footage and all the places are being identified, where there was information about a stampede-like situation,” he said.