The Karnataka authorities Monday revoked suspensions of former Bengaluru police commissioner B Dayananda and three different officers who had been suspended following the M Chinnaswamy Stadium stampede that claimed 11 lives on June 4.
Nevertheless, IPS officer Vikash Kumar Vikash stays suspended. Among the many suspended officers, Vikash had approached the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) looking for reduction from his suspension.
The CAT granted Vikash’s petition and revoked his suspension. The state authorities subsequently challenged the CAT order, which is at the moment being heard by the Karnataka Excessive Court docket.
Apart from Dayananda, the federal government reinstated former deputy commissioner of police (Central) Shekhar H Tekkannavar, C Balakrishna (former assistant commissioner of police, Cubbon Park sub-division), and A Ok Girish (former police inspector, Cubbon Park police station).
The suspensions had been imposed instantly after the stampede at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, the place celebrations had been held on June 4, following Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s maiden Indian Premier League (IPL) title victory a day earlier. The federal government’s suspension order cited “substantial dereliction of responsibility” that triggered “distress, lack of treasured life and embarrassment for the federal government.”
The federal government had blamed the police for failing to implement sufficient security measures throughout the celebrations and for offering inadequate public data concerning crucial precautionary steps.
In Monday’s order, the federal government famous that following the stampede, it had ordered a magisterial inquiry and arrange a one-man judicial fee underneath retired Excessive Court docket decide Justice John Michael D’Cunha.
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“Since each the Judicial Fee and Magisterial Committee have accomplished their enquiry into the stampede incident and submitted their studies to the Authorities on 10.07.2025 and 11.07.2025, respectively. Additional, the officers have additionally submitted representations learn at ref (5) requesting to revoke their suspension. In view of the above, the order of suspension of the above-said officers has been reconsidered by the Authorities,” the federal government order reads.