Congress leader Saurabh Madaan, who organised the Dussehra celebrations in Amritsar that took 61 lives, had taken police permission but not informed the railways. According to a report Madaan said: “I met DCP (Amrik Singh) Powar before organising the whole thing.” He however said he hadn’t approached the railway and said: “Our function had nothing to do with the railways. Whatever happened was an accident.”
Congress leader Saurabh Madaan, who organised the Dussehra celebrations in Amritsar that took 61 lives, had taken police permission but not informed the railways. According to a report Madaan said: “I met DCP (Amrik Singh) Powar before organising the whole thing.” He however said he hadn’t approached the railway and said: “Our function had nothing to do with the railways. Whatever happened was an accident.”