On the morning of 12 September 2015, an explosion in the town of Petlawad of the Jhabua district in the state of Madhya Pradesh of India killed 104 people.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced compensation of ₹200,000 rupees (about US$3,000) to the kin of the deceased and ₹50,000 (about US$750) to the injured.
[7] The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, expressed condolences in a message to Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav,[2] while Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his grief over the deaths on Twitter.
[1] In the course of their investigation, Madhya Pradesh Police found that Rajendra Kasawa rented space in the warehouse where the explosion occurred, and stored gelignite sticks there that triggered the blasts in the building.
[8] Meanwhile, the Indian National Congress party alleged that Kasawa was a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist.