New Delhi: The Indore civic physique in Madhya Pradesh on Monday (April 3, 2023) demolished an unlawful construction on the temple the place a stepwell had collapsed final week and claimed 36 lives. The native administration launched a drive to take away encroachments from the spiritual complicated on Monday morning and moved the idols of deities to a different shrine. The operation on the Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal temple complicated within the Patel Nagar space was carried out within the presence of heavy police safety and barricades have been positioned on roads resulting in the temple. The motion was being taken to take away encroachments from about 10,000 sq. ft of land across the temple premises.
The crackdown got here after the slab constructed on prime of the ‘bawdi’ (stepwell) on the Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal temple caved in and plunged a number of devotees into the water reservoir beneath throughout a Ram Navami programme on Thursday.
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The tragedy was reportedly the worst in Indore’s historical past.
Personnel of the Indian Army, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) have been concerned within the search and rescue operation.
The temple had been constructed after protecting the square-shaped stepwell about 4 a long time in the past.
Earlier final week, an FIR was registered in opposition to two members of the belief of the Indore temple.
An FIR was registered in opposition to Sevaram Galani, the president of Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal Temple Trust, and its secretary Murli Kumar Sabnani beneath IPC part 304 (culpable murder not amounting to homicide).
There are allegations in opposition to these two workplace bearers that they constructed a really unsafe construction by placing a slab on the stepwell, as a result of which 36 individuals misplaced their lives in Thursday’s incident, police mentioned.
“The Indore Municipal Corporation had ordered the trust to remove the illegal construction in the temple complex, but the trust did not comply with the order. Both the accused have not been arrested as yet,” a senior police official mentioned.
An Indore Municipal Corporation official mentioned the Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal Temple Trust, in reply to the civic physique’s letter (on encroachment), had submitted a written reply in April final 12 months claiming it could renovate the temple and open the stepwell by eradicating the development (ground slab) on it.
However, the temple belief didn’t perform the works it talked about in its letter, the IMC official added.
Meanwhile, Indore Mayor mentioned that he had ordered the suspension of a constructing officer and a constructing inspector of the civic physique in reference to the incident.
The civic physique will free all such waterbodies from encroachments and unsafe development to forestall such tragedies, the Mayor added.
