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  • Issue of lack of coordination in Sabarimala stampede to be probed judicially says Kerala CM

    Published on January 17, 2011

    Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan today said the issue of lack of coordination among government departments raised by Kerala High Court in context of the Sabarimala stampede will be brought within the ambit of the judicial probe into the tragedy. He said in Thiruvananthapuram that the guilty will not be spared. The Chief Minister was responding to reporters when they sought his reaction to the strong observations made by the division bench of the Kerala High Court.

    In a suo moto reference, the division bench comprising justices Thottahthil Radhakrishnan and P S Gopinathan observed that there had been lack of coordination among various departments in arrangements to regulate flow of pilgrims at Sabarimala.

    The court also asked the police, the forest department and the Travancore Devaswom Board, which manages the shrine at Sabarimala to submit a detailed report on the causes that led to the stampede before January 20.

    The Kerala government had earlier announced its decision to conduct a judicial probe into the tragedy which claimed 102 lives last Friday.

    Meanwhile, ISRO Chairman Dr.K Radhakrishnan has offered to provide the state government three- dimensional satellite imagery of Sabarimala to prevent similar disasters in future. This can provide clear view of each and every difficult terrain. He added that with central assistance ISRO has already prepared such images of 200 districts in the country.

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