New Delhi: Self-styled godman Narayan Sakaar Hari alias Bhole Baba said on Wednesday (July 17) that he is very disturbed by the stampede in Hathras earlier this month –121 people died in a stampede at a ‘satsang’ held by him – but that nobody can avoid what is destined, as everyone has to die one day.“Honee ko kaun taal sakta hai. Jo aaya hai use ek din to jaana bhi hai, bhale hee koi aagey peechey ho (Nobody can avoid what has to happen. Everyone has to die one day, only the time is not certain,” the self-styled Godman said on Wednesday (July 17), reported the Press Trust of India.He further claimed there was a conspiracy to ‘defame’ his organisation.“After the July 2 incident, I was very depressed and disturbed. But nobody can avoid what has to happen… What my lawyer and eyewitnesses said about the poisonous spray is completely true, there has definitely been a conspiracy,” Hari said, reported PTI.Hari’s lawyer A.P. Singh said that the former has reached his ashram at Bahadur Nagar village in Kasganj.Hari has not been named by the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh in the FIR pertaining to the case, which invoked several charges, prime among them culpable homicide.While speaking to the media on Wednesday (July 17) the godman said that he has full faith in the SIT and judicial commission, and that his followers believe that the ‘truth’ will come out and the ‘conspiracy’ will be exposed.Police have arrested six persons, identified as Ram Yadav (Mainpuri), Bhupendra Singh Yadav (Firozabad), Megh Singh (Hathras), Manju Yadav (Hathras), Mukesh Kumar (Hathras) and Manju Devi. They worked as sevadars (volunteers) as part of Hari’s group and organised several such events in the past.While investigation is ongoing at various levels, what’s been established as of now is that the stampede took place while or after Hari was leaving or left the venue of the satsang. An internal report of the administration suggested that the incident might have taken place due to the over-eagerness of the devotees, especially women, of the self-styled guru to seek his blessings and apply the dust of his feet on their foreheads and the attempts of the organisers to prevent them from doing so, following the event.
