LUCKNOW: Donning new clothes and brimming with excitement, five-year-old Shraddha considered herself lucky when she got a place in the overcrowded pandal to closely watch the pujari perform rituals welcoming the bridegroom at the wedding ceremony of Jagdish Yadav’s daughter in Nurdi Kheda village of Bijnor on Thursday night.
She, along with many others, were watching the ritual from the newly-constructed terrace just above the ritual site. The groom was about to step on the mat, when with a loud thud, the terrace came crashing down, crushing Shradha and Ram Kishan Tiwari, the pujari, to death.
