Bihar stampede: 4 officials transferred
According to reports, District Magistrate Manish Verma and Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj have been removed from their post while DIG Central Range Ajitabh Kumar and Divisional Commissioner N Vijayalakshmi were transferred on Sunday.
As many as 33 people, including women and children, were killed and 29 injured in a stampede at the landmark Gandhi Maidan on Friday evening.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sanctioned Rs 2 lakh for the next of kin of the deceased and Rs. 50,000 for the critically injured from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund.
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