AMRITSAR: President of Dussehra Committee (East), Saurabh Mithu Madan, who had been missing since October 19 after a train mowed down 58 people in Amritsar , resurfaced on Tuesday midnight claiming that fearing people’s wrath he went into hiding.Talking to TOI on Wednesday, Mithu, who is a son of Congress party’s sitting municipal councillor from ward number 29, Vijay Madan, said, “To tell you truthfully, I was scared. Following the incident, my team members told me that people could harm me. I barely managed to take my parents to safety. A few people had attacked my house and broke window panes.”Mithu, however, put the blame on the railways. “The gatemen knew about the event. It was their moral duty to inform about it to their senior officers and make suitable arrangements,” he said. Mithu also claimed he had all the required permissions to hold the Dussehera function.The Dussehra committee president showed a letter written to the Amritsar municipal corporation commissioner for making arrangement for fire brigade and a water tanker for the function. He said he had submitted the letter with the corporation office and had obtained the diary number. He said senior police officers had inspected the venue of Dhobi Ghat where the function was held before providing security.However, the mayor of Amritsar Karamjit Singh Rintu and municipal commissioner Sonali Giri had stated that Mithu had not given any application. “Municipal corporation did not give any permission to hold an event, which the event oprganisers should have applied for before asking for these services,” said Giri.