Delhi stampede deaths: Owaisi demands judicially-monitored SIT inquiry

Expressing condolences over the deaths at New Delhi Railway Station following a stampede, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday demanded an independent, judicially-monitored SIT to investigate the tragedy.

In a post on X, the Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP also sought an independent 

inquiry into the “systemic failures” of the Indian Railways. As many as 18 people were killed and more than a dozen injured in a stampede that broke out late Saturday night at the crowded railway station. 

My deepest condolences to the



loved ones of those who died in the New Delhi Railway Station stampede. This was an avoidable tragedy. 

The BJP government is trying to cover up what happened. This is what needs to be done instead: 1. Appointing an independent, judicially-monitored SIT to investigate the tragedy 2. An independent inquiry into the systemic failures of the Indian Railways, he said in the post. 

He further said Indian Railways is a lifeline for millions of Indians and it does not deserve the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's “mismanagement”.