{"id":54473,"date":"2018-10-20T16:16:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T10:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=54473"},"modified":"2018-10-20T16:16:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T10:46:42","slug":"amarinder-visits-injured-and-orders-magisterial-probe-into-the-amritsar-train-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/amarinder-visits-injured-and-orders-magisterial-probe-into-the-amritsar-train-accident","title":{"rendered":"Amarinder visits injured and orders magisterial probe into the Amritsar train accident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"302\" height=\"179\" data-attachment-id=\"54476\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/amarinder-visits-injured-and-orders-magisterial-probe-into-the-amritsar-train-accident\/amrinder\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/amrinder.jpg?fit=302%2C179&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"302,179\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"amrinder\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/amrinder.jpg?fit=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/amrinder.jpg?fit=302%2C179&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/amrinder.jpg?resize=302%2C179&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/amrinder.jpg?w=302&amp;ssl=1 302w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/amrinder.jpg?resize=150%2C89&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/amrinder.jpg?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Saturday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the Amritsar train accident after visiting injured and kin of those killed in the tragedy.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">The chief minister postponed a trip to Israel and arrived here this morning to assess the damage.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">&#8220;We are announcing a magisterial probe into the incident,&#8221; Singh said while talking to media here.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; 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The divisional commissioner of Jalandhar has been entrusted with the job of holding the inquiry, he said.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">At least 59 people were killed Friday evening after a crowd of Dussehra revellers that had spilled onto railway tracks while watching the burning of a Ravana effigy was run over by a train near Joda Phatak here.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"> At least 300 people were watching the &#8216;Ravana dahan&#8217; at a ground adjacent to railway tracks.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">He said compensation of Rs five lakh each for the families of the deceased had already been announced by the state government. Besides, the government would bear the cost of medical treatments of the injured admitted to different hospitals, he told reporters.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Fifty-nine people were killed and 57 injured in the accident, he said, adding except nine, most of the bodies have been identified.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">After landing at the Amritsar airport, Singh reached the accident site. He met senior officials and members of the crisis management group and took stock of the relief work.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">He was accompanied by Health Minister Brahm Mohindra, Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, Education Minister O P Soni, Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar, among others.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Saturday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the Amritsar train accident after visiting injured and kin of those killed in the tragedy.The chief minister postponed a trip to Israel and arrived here this morning to assess the damage.&#8220;We are announcing a magisterial probe into the incident,&#8221; Singh said while talking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[43526,43527,43525,43528],"class_list":["post-54473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-education-minister-o-p-soni","tag-health-minister-brahm-mohindra","tag-local-bodies-minister-navjot-singh-sidhu","tag-punjab-congress-chief-sunil-jakhar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amarinder visits injured and orders magisterial probe into the Amritsar train accident - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Saturday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the Amritsar train accident after visiting injured and kin of those - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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