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Acting connected recommendations of the probe sheet constituted to analyse alleged mismanagement during the Lionel Messi event astatine the Salt Lake Stadium past week, the West Bengal authorities connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) issued a show-cause announcement to DGP Rajeev Kumar, seeking mentation implicit the lapses reported astatine the venue and acceptable a deadline of 24 hours to reply, a connection issued by the bureau of the Chief Secretary Manoj Pant said.
Additionally, Bidhannagar Police Commissioner Mukesh Kumar was besides served a akin show-cause announcement and asked to clarify the relation and behaviour of the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate successful the absorption of the lawsuit which had led to largescale chaos and vandalism by spectators wrong stadium premises connected Saturday.
The State Government suspended Bidhannagar Deputy Commissioner of Police Aneesh Sarkar and initiated departmental proceedings against him for reported negligence of work connected the time of the event, the connection said.
Principal Secretary of the Youth Affairs and Sports Department Rajesh Kumar Sinha has besides been show-caused implicit the alleged lapses, portion the services of Salt Lake Stadium Chief Executive Officer Deb Kumar Nandan were withdrawn with contiguous effect.
As per recommendations of the three-member probe committee headed by retired Justice Ashim Kumar Roy, the authorities constituted a Special Investigation Team comprising 4 elder IPS officers—Piyush Pandey, Javed Shamim, Supratim Sarkar and Muralidhar—to behaviour a thorough probe into the incident, which forced short-termination of the marque shot event, led the shot superstar to permission the venue aboriginal and caused an estimated stadium harm of astir ₹2 crore.
