Kolkata Police have arrested seven people, including office-bearers of the Chorbagan Sarbojanin Durga Puja organising committee, in connection with the stampede that killed 19 people and injured 25 in the city on Saturday. Police have also registered a suo motu case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, a police official was quoted as saying by PTI.
The arrested include Raj Kumar Sewda alias Raja (48), the secretary of the organising committee; Santanu Dubey (55), its vice president; and Biplab Mukherjee alias Joy (48), who was involved in constructing the bamboo structure, Kolkata Police said, according to ANI.
