The Karnataka Excessive Courtroom Wednesday directed the state authorities to make sure that the Justice (Retd) Michael D’Cunha Fee report on the June 4 stampede outdoors Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru is just not printed or circulated till the following date of listening to and the federal government assured the court docket of the identical.
The division bench of Justice Jayant Banerji and Justice Umesh M Adiga recorded the submission by Advocate Common Ok Shashikiran Shetty and adjourned the listening to of the petition filed by DNA Leisure Networks Personal Restricted to September 4, permitting the Karnataka authorities time to file its objections.
Eleven folks had been killed within the stampede, which occurred throughout a celebration to mark the Indian Premier League (IPL) victory of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) cricket workforce. The Fee’s findings held the occasion organisers and senior law enforcement officials liable for the tragedy. Because of this, the federal government determined to file legal expenses towards officers from RCB, DNA Leisure, and the Karnataka State Cricket Affiliation.
DNA, the occasion administration accomplice of Royal Challengers Sports activities Personal Restricted, which owns RCB, filed the plea arguing the Fee violated the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952, within the process adopted in conducting the inquiry.
Senior advocate B Ok Sampath Kumar argued that DNA had not been granted the chance to cross-examine these witnesses who had deposed towards them. Kumar alleged that DNA had not been given a replica of the report, when extracts from it had been circulated within the media, including that the fame of DNA was being tarnished “each second”.
The AG Wednesday acknowledged that the Fee is a fact-finding physique, and there’s no query of injury to anybody’s fame.
Kumar had beforehand acknowledged earlier than the court docket that the time supplied for the inquiry was one month and the report was prepared solely by July 11, which was past the interval.
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“Nowhere is the facility for the one-man Fee to say such-and-such motion must be taken towards any people. It is just to level out who’s accountable, what had been the lapses, and many others,” he had stated.
On the time, AG Shetty had expressed doubts concerning the authorized maintainability of the petition by DNA. The excessive court docket had then directed the judicial report back to be positioned earlier than it in a sealed cowl.