The former police officer-turned-spiritual leader has not been seen in public since the deadly crush.
A poster of preacher Surajpal, also known as Bhole Baba, stuck on a board at the site where believers had gathered for a Hindu religious congregation following a stampede on July 3.said on the morning of July 6 that he was “deeply distressed”, in his first public response to the disaster.
A police report issued after the stampede named several organisers of the prayer meeting sought for arrest, but Baba’s name was not among them. The prayer meeting was attended by 250,000 devotees, more than three times the number the event had legal permissions for.Local media reports suggested he had retreated to his nearby monastery, the gates of which have been chained shut by supporters inside to bar public access.
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