Qutub Minar closed for tourist | ‘Qutub Minar is falling’ | 45 Killed 21 Injured 1981 | Part 3

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Public access to the minar’s top had been stopped 40 Years ago
45 persons had been killed and 21 injured

Why Qutub Minar has been closed for 40 years?
What happened On December 4, 1981, a Friday

By 11am busloads of tourists were inside the spiral staircase that leads up to the balcony. Around 11.30am – reports from that day say – the power supply tripped and the lights inside went out. The minar has large vents at regular intervals for air and light, but as scared visitors sought safety close to the staircase wall, they cut out the daylight. Then, as the crowd tried to exit desperately, a stampede occurred. Within minutes, dozens of people lay dead and injured in the darkness. Anil Kumar, a student of Delhi’s Aurobindo College at the time, was inside the minar with seven of his friends when the stampede occurred. He told TOI they were descending the dark stairs in a single file when they suddenly “found themselves sliding down uncontrollably”. He survived with chest injuries.

The minar gate had heavy steel doors that opened inwards. As the number of people inside swelled, the chowkidar had pulled the doors shut. But when hundreds of people tried to barge outside at once, the doors jammed against the frame. Rescuers couldn’t enter through the gate because of the mass of people behind it. Luckily, a scaffolding had been built behind the minar to carry out repairs, and local hawkers and tourist guides used it to enter the minar through the vents. They extricated many survivors and bodies over an hour. By the time police and the fire brigade arrived, the dead had been laid out in the Qutub lawns and the injured rushed to AIIMS and Safdarjung hospitals in the tourist buses that had brought them in the morning. 
45 persons had been killed and 21 injured.

What caused the stampede? 
Survivors that day gave different accounts of what had happened. Some said a group of unruly boys had misbehaved with women tourists in the dark, and the stampede started when those women tried to rush downstairs. Others said someone had slipped in the dark and set off a chain reaction while trying to regain balance. Next day, Delhi Police denied receiving any complaint of molestation, but news reports from the time say two tourists from New Zealand, Jackie and Marie, had alleged they were molested. One of them was seen leaving the Qutub compound wearing a borrowed lungi and shirt. 
Later, district and sessions judge Jagdish Chandra’s inquiry report in the case also made a mention of their harassment. Overcrowding was an old problem in the minar, especially on holidays. After the December 1981 tragedy, education minister Sheila Kaul told Lok Sabha a system of crowd-control had been in place since the 1950s, when tickets were introduced at the Qutub. There are 155 steps up to the first balcony, so 300 visitors were allowed in at a time. By some accounts, more than 500 people were inside the minar on December 4, 1981.

‘Qutub is falling…’ 
 The inquiry commission concluded that the stampede had occurred when a girl – not one of the New Zealand tourists – slipped near the minar’s 8th ventilator and some boys raised a false alarm: “Qutub is falling...go down, go down.”

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Qutub Minar closed for tourist | ‘Qutub Minar is falling’ | 45 Killed 21 Injured 1981 | Part 3