FIR against ITBP over youth?s death

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has been slapped with a police case by family of a job aspirant who was killed in a stampede during Tuesday?s recruitment rally even as the security agency admitted that it estimates on probable candidates went wrong, reports said on Thursday.

A murder case has been registered against ITBP by family of one Devendra Singh, hailing from Etah, who was injured on the head in a stampede during the rally, flowing baton charge to control the crowd.

Singh had succumbed at a local hospital on Tuesday night.

Meanwhile, the ITBP has accepted that it could correctly estimate the number of aspirants in a recruitment rally.

At least 19 people were killed when several ITBP job seekers, riding on the roof of a train, were crushed by a low overhead bridge in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday.

The accident occurred at Shahjahanpur after nearly 100,000 job seekers, who had assembled in Bareilly to apply for merely 416 jobs in the ITBP, were on their way home.

ITBP additional director general Dilip Trivedi said, ?As recruitment for the post of tradesman was being done after a gap of three years, estimation of the number of aspirants, who will turn up for the process was not right.?

An enquiry into the reasons leading to the incident has been instituted and the report should be out in seven days, he said.

He added that the ITBP will try to ensure that such incidents do not recur.

Tuesday?s registrations have been cancelled and a fresh drive will be undertaken.

The stampede incident was followed by the train tragedy the same day.