The High Court of Karnataka on Friday directed the police not take any coercive actions against the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) based on the First Information Report (FIR) registered in connection with the stampede outside M. Chinnaswamy stadium during RCB’s victory celebrations on June 4.
Justice S.R. Krishna Kumar passed the interim order on the petitions filed by KSCA’s managing committee comprising its president Raghuram Bhat, secretary A. Shankar and treasurer E.S.Jairam.
However, the court directed the KSCA managing committee to cooperate with the probe and not to leave the jurisdiction of the court without permission.
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The KSCA has said that registration of FIR was illegal as the police had already commenced probe by registering Unnatural Death Report (UDR) on the incident of stampede. Registering FIR against KSCA is a serious failure of justice at the hands of the police when the government itself had termed the stampede as “an unforeseen accident and unintended act.”
“The incident was an accident due to sudden rush and surge, and no intention or motive can be attributed particularly to KSCA’s management committee because gates and crowd atthe stadium was managed by RCSPL and not by the KSCA, which had rented out the stadium for RCB event,” it has been claimed in KSCA’s petition.
“When the order of suspension of police officers clearly blmaes the failure of the police department, the police in turn cannot victimise it”, the KSCA claimed.
