It has been more than four months that the Amritsar train tragedy had occured. However, the Special Investigation Team, formed for fixing of criminal charges is yet to complete the task given to it. The Punjab director general of police (DGP) Suresh Arora directed the government railway police (GRP), after three days of incident had ordered a probe into the incident. Also, Iqbal Singh Sahota, the Additional General of Police (ADGP, railways), was administered to monitor the investigation. At that time, he had said that the probe will be completed within three months. The SIT is headed by Additional inspector general (AIG, railways) Daljit Singh Rana. It consists of Deputy Superintendent of police (DSP, railways) Surinder Kumar, two inspectors Narinder Kumar and Nirmal Singh, and GRP Amritsar station house officer (SHO) Balbir Singh.
Rana had informed, “We have finished questioning the railway staff, organisers of the Dussehra event, the police and civil administration employees. At present, we are waiting for forensic reports of samples sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in Chandigarh. The probe will be completed within the next twenty days.” The SIT, however, has not summoned Punjab local bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu wife Navjot Kaur for questioning. Kaur was chief guest at the Dussehra event organised by Saurabh Madan, son of Congress councillor Vijay Madan. It is said that the Jalandhar divisional commissioner B Purushartha had conducted a magisterial inquiry into the incident and had given her a “clean chit”.
On 19th October 2018, 61 people scumbbed to death and 143 were severly injured, when a train ran over a crowd that had gathered on the tracks for Dussehra celebrations at Dhobi Ghat near Jaura Phatak Road.