As many as 24 engineering students from Hyderabad, who were
part of a group of students on a tour of HImachal Pradesh, and a tour guide
were washed away in the Beas on Sunday when water was released into the river
from the Larji hydroelectric power project.Five bodies were recovered from the
river on Monday.
The sixth body was recovered from the Beas River
on Wednesday near Hanogi, Indo—Tibetan Border Police Commandant Lakshman said The victim has been identified as MD Shabir Hussain
Shaik.The body was identified by his mother Ayisha Begum, who was camping at
Kullu.
SP Mandi RS Negi said that a case under sections 336 (act
endangering life or personal safety of others) and 304—A (causing death by
negligence) of the IPC has been registered against the authorities of Larji
project.
The FIR against the project authorities was registered by A
Aditya, a teacher accompanying the students.
A team of 84 people, comprising 20 NDRF divers, assisted by
18 divers of the army are searching the bodies and chances of the bodies
flowing downstream Pandoh Dam are very dim.
The search teams are expecting the swollen bodies to surface
by Thursday but chances of survival of the missing persons are nil.