Last week, outside the emergency ward of Aligarh’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, dozens of bodies lay, mostly women in sarees, brought from Hathras following a tragic incident during the Satsang (religious gathering) of the popular preacher Suraj Pal Singh—also known as 'Bhole Baba'—where over 120 people lost their lives.
Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, who reached Hathras today and met the kin of victims who died in a stampede that killed 121 people, said there has been some negligence by the administration.
Masud Ahmed, Jamia Millia Islamia student who was arrested while en route to Hathras in October 2020 along with journalist Siddique Kappan and a UAPA undertrial prisoner, has been granted bail in a case registered by ED.
The principal and two teachers of BLS International School in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras were suspended following a hate campaign by Hindutva supporters against the teachers and students who celebrated Eid inside the school.
On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected the Uttar Pradesh government's plea to challenge the Allahabad High Court's order to consider providing a job to a family member of a Dalit woman who was gang-raped and murdered by upper-caste Hindu men in Hathras district in 2020.