Bengaluru stampede: Karnataka HC allows sealed cover status report, bail plea of RCB official up next

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday accepted the state's request to submit a status report into the June 4 stampede outside Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru in a sealed cover. The state argued that making the report public might influence the judicial enquiry as well as the ongoing hearing on the bail petitions.

A division bench of acting chief justice V Kameshwar Rao and Justice CM Joshi will now hear the case on Thursday, June 12. The HC took cognizance of the ghastly stampede suo moto. The RCB's victory celebrations after winning the 2025 IPL final that led to an unprecedented stampede killed 11 people and injured scores of others. Quite a few public-spirited people have moved the high court seeking justice in the case.

AG Shashi Kiran Shetty, appearing for the government, mentioned the likelihood of the persons arrested in connection with the case using the status report in the bail petitions, and its influence on the judicial enquiry.

BAIL PETITION

Justice SR Krishna Kumar has posted the bail petition from RCB's marketing head Nikhil Sosale in connection with the stampede case for Wednesday.

Sosale's counsel questioned why his client, and three others associated with the DNA Entertainment Network, had been singled out in the case.

Sosale's counsel said the arrests were made only because Chief Minister Siddaramaiah ordered the arrests and not because the investigations required their arrest.

AICC satisfied with steps taken after stampede, says CM

Siddaramaiah on Tuesday briefed AICC president Mallikarjuna Kharge and Rahul Gandhi about the steps taken after the June 4 stampede.

The CM told the media in Delhi that he explained the sequence of events and the follow-up steps taken, and the leaders were satisfied with the government response. He was accompanied by Dy CM DK Shivakumar and AICC general secretaries KC Venugopal and RC Surjewala were present in the meeting.