The guilty of the Amritsar train massacre should not go unpunished, enquiry by a High Court judge mandatory ?

Its indeed shocking, highly traumatic and anguishing beyond imagination that when the entire country was involved in celebrating Vijaydashmi, a festival of triumph of truth over evil with full gaiety and fervour , several of our brothers and sisters were dying of unbearable pain while being ruthlessly crushed under the two speeding trains in Amritsar, Punjab and several others badly injured losing their body parts.

Never ever in the history of any train accident after partition has such a tragic killing happened in which two speedily running trains in opposite directions, mercilessly crush more than a hundred people merrily watching a religious event taking the 60 lives on the spot and grievously injuring over 40 persons having lost their vital body parts.

The Punjab government has announced official holiday for 20th October as a mark of shock in honour of those killed in this incident. It’s no less than a massacre say the people present on the spot who’ d lost their own blood relations and the near and dear ones.

The visibly moved chief minister of Punjab captain Amrinder Singh has sanctioned Rs 5 lakh as monetary compensation to each of the bereaved family of the deceased immediately and ordered free treatment of each and every injured even if it is in any high profile private hospital.

The tragedy took place in the constituency of the former cricketer and minister in the Punjab Congress government Navjyot Singh Sidhu. The union Railway minister of state Manoj Sinha has already left for the accident spot while the union Railway minister Piyush Goyal has cut short his US visit and is coming back to India, by tomorrow.

The Punjab chief minister Captai Amrinder Singh too has cancelled his pre fixed visit to Israel where he was slated to go to sign certain MOUs for the state’s develoment.

The prime minister Narendra Modi and the finance minister Arun Jaitley have expressed their heartfelt grief and condolences to the bereaved families and assured of all possible assistence from he centre.

There have been massive resentment n anger against the wife of Nav Jyot Singh Sidhu as well who was the chief guest at the Vijay Dashmi function. People annoyed and angered with her said that not only was she late in the function because of which the effigy burning got late and people in such a large number killed but at the time of the tragedy she left the place intentionally, instead of helping and evacuating the injured to the hospital.

There have been many faults and discrepencies which if not happened, this massive tragedy could have been averted/avoided. People say that the organisers of the programme which took place in Nav Jyot Singh Sidhu’s constituency, have not sought the official permission. Secondly the railway authorities had not been informed about the event so as to ensure that the train to pass from the event area colud have either been delayed or its speed decreased to avoid this tragedy. Thirdly, the organisors should have avoided this place when they knew that the railway lines/ tracks are too near to the ground where the event was being held. Fourth, the local police or the railway authorities should have been vigilantly on duty near the railway tracks to instruct the audience/ people not to sit or stand on or near the railway lines, particularly at the time of the arrival of the trains n fifth, the guards of the nearest railway station should have been informed quite in advance to give the pre information to the train driver to decrease the speed of the train in the evening hours when the effigy of the Ravana, Meghanath and Kumbh Karna were to be burnt.

Had these instructions been followed this tragic and most horrible accident could have been avoided. But the point is who cares? Latest report suggest that till now over 60 peoples’ death have been confirmed n forty persons are grievously injured some having lost their hands n legs while some badly struggling for survival.