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INDORE: Four days after the stepwell roof collapse at a temple in Indore claimed 36 livers, the local administration on Monday morning launched a drive to remove encroachments from the religious complex and moved the idols of deities to another shrine.
#WATCH | Madhya Pradesh: Indore municipality deploys bulldozer & demolishes illegal structure at Indore temple where 36 people died after the stepwell collapse there last week. pic.twitter.com/gpRJB6zWhN
— ANI MP/CG/Rajasthan (@ANI_MP_CG_RJ) April 3, 2023
The operation was launched at the Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal temple complex in the Patel Nagar area here in Madhya Pradesh in the presence of heavy police security and barricades were placed on roads leading to the temple, officials said.
They said the action was being taken to remove encroachments from about 10,000 square feet of land around the temple premises.
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Meanwhile, a temple priest present on the spot said prayers were offered to idols at the temple according to rituals and they were shifted to Kantafod temple.
After the tragedy last Thursday, an FIR was lodged against Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal Temple Trust president Sevaram Galani and secretary Murli Kumar Sabnani under Indian Penal Code Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), Juni Indore police station in-charge Neeraj Meda said.
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The two accused are facing charges that they had got unsafe construction work done by putting a roof over the stepwell, due to which 36 people lost their lives, the official said.
“The Indore Municipal Corporation had ordered the trust to remove the illegal construction at the temple complex, but the trust did not obey the order,” he said.
INDORE: Four days after the stepwell roof collapse at a temple in Indore claimed 36 livers, the local administration on Monday morning launched a drive to remove encroachments from the religious complex and moved the idols of deities to another shrine.
#WATCH | Madhya Pradesh: Indore municipality deploys bulldozer & demolishes illegal structure at Indore temple where 36 people died after the stepwell collapse there last week. pic.twitter.com/gpRJB6zWhN
— ANI MP/CG/Rajasthan (@ANI_MP_CG_RJ) April 3, 2023
The operation was launched at the Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal temple complex in the Patel Nagar area here in Madhya Pradesh in the presence of heavy police security and barricades were placed on roads leading to the temple, officials said.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });
They said the action was being taken to remove encroachments from about 10,000 square feet of land around the temple premises.
ALSO READ | 36 dead as roof of temple stepwell collapses in Indore, CM Chouhan visits injured
Meanwhile, a temple priest present on the spot said prayers were offered to idols at the temple according to rituals and they were shifted to Kantafod temple.
After the tragedy last Thursday, an FIR was lodged against Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal Temple Trust president Sevaram Galani and secretary Murli Kumar Sabnani under Indian Penal Code Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), Juni Indore police station in-charge Neeraj Meda said.
ALSO READ | Political blame game: Illegal constructions on stepwell led to Indore temple tragedy, claims Kamal Nath
The two accused are facing charges that they had got unsafe construction work done by putting a roof over the stepwell, due to which 36 people lost their lives, the official said.
“The Indore Municipal Corporation had ordered the trust to remove the illegal construction at the temple complex, but the trust did not obey the order,” he said.
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