
IPL title victory stampede: RCB marketing chief Nikhil Sosale arrested
Bengaluru Police have arrested the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) marketing head Nikhil Sosale, in connection with the stampede that occurred in Chennai's M Chinnaswamy stadium on Wednesday to celebrate the IPL title victory of the squad.
Sosale, the head of marketing and revenue for RCB at Diageo India, was taken into custody at the Bengaluru airport, reported India Today.
According to reports, he was detained when he was trying to fly out to Mumbai.
Police, separately, arrested three other members of the DNA Entertainment Networks Pvt. Ltd, the organisers who hosted the victory celebrations in the city.
They were identified as Kiran, Sumanth and Sunil Mathew.
They were taken to the Cubbon Park Police Station for interrogation, where the stampede incident-related FIR was registered.
The Bengaluru Police have filed a case on their own (suo moto) against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), the Karnataka cricket body, and DNA Entertainment over the stampede on Wednesday that left 11 dead and dozens injured.
The case has been filed under five sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including Section 105, which deals with culpable homicide.
According to preliminary findings, the KSCA, DNA Networks, and the RCB franchise went ahead with the event despite not having received permission.
They did not provide proper facilities or manage crowd entry, despite being warned by the police, according to the initial investigation.
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