In one of the worst tragedies, 121 people, most of them women and children, died in a stampede at a Hindu religious congregation in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh on July 2. The stampede took place around 3:30 pm, as Baba was leaving the venue. A stampede at the Naina Devi temple in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, claimed the lives of 122 persons.
A total of 250 people were trampled to death when devotees congregated at the Chadmundagar temple in the northern desert state of Rajasthan to celebrate Navratri, a nine-day festival honoring the Goddess Durga..