Ballia (UP). In Uttar Pradesh, the death toll has risen to four in the sinking of a boat carrying devotees who had come to attend the Mundan rites on Monday morning at Maldepur Ganga Ghat in the Kotwali area of ​​Ballia district headquarters. Police said on Tuesday that two boatmen were involved in the case. Both have been arrested by registering an FIR against them.
The death toll in a boat carrying pilgrims capsized at Maldepur Ganga Ghat on Monday morning, police said, raising the death toll to four. Officer of Police (CO), Sadar area, Ashok Kumar Mishra said the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) )’s team recovered the body of Surendra Yadav (32) from the river Ganga in the morning, earlier on Monday the bodies of Gangotri Devi (55), Indravati (60) and Seema (32) were recovered.
Mishra said that now there is no possibility of missing anyone else, in such a situation the NDRF team has stopped the relief and rescue work. The CO said that in the boat accident case, two sailors Munji and Ram were found late on Monday night in the Fafna police station area. A case has been registered against Dayal under sections 282 (causing danger to life of others by excessive load on a vessel) and 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Penal Code. Police arrested both the accused on Tuesday.
Earlier, Ballia District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar had told on Monday that at Maldepur Ganga Ghat of Ballia city Kotwali area, people were going on a boat to the other side of the river at around 8.30 am on Monday for Mundan Sanskar, that the engine of the boat Something went wrong and after that the boat capsized due to strong wind. The boatman absconded after the accident. After the incident, the district administration has given detailed guidelines regarding prevention of boat accidents by banning the operation of unregistered boats in the district. District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar gave detailed guidelines on Monday evening regarding preventing boat accidents at the district level under the Uttar Pradesh Boat Safety and Sailor Welfare Policy-2020.
Inputs From: Amrit Vichar
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