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Members of a committee, acceptable up by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to inquire astir the chaos during Argentine shot icon Lionel Messi’s lawsuit successful Salt Lake stadium a time ago, reached the venue connected Sunday (December 14, 2025) to transportation retired an on-ground inspection, officials said.
The sheet members, headed by retired Calcutta High Court justice Justice Ashim Kumar Ray, volition behaviour the probe, they said.
Chief Secretary Manoj Pant and Home Secretary Nandini Chakravorty are besides members of the enquiry team.
The members volition inspect the stadium premises, assemblage absorption arrangements and facilities provided to spectators arsenic portion of the probe into the alleged mismanagement during Messi's lawsuit connected Saturday, the officials said.
CCTV footage mightiness besides beryllium probed, they said.
The committee has been tasked with fixing work for the lapses that led to the chaos and recommending measures to forestall a recurrence of specified incidents astatine high-profile events.
What was billed arsenic a marquee sporting spectacle unravelled into upset arsenic thousands of spectators protested aft being incapable to get a wide glimpse of Messi, triggering vandalism wrong the stadium.
The wide chaos astatine the venue prompted the Argentine World Cup-winning skipper to permission the tract early.
In the aftermath of the incident, the constabulary arrested the main organiser of the lawsuit connected charges of mismanagement and nationalist disorder, and an FIR was lodged.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had connected Saturday (December 13, 2025) apologised to Messi and shot fans, describing the incidental arsenic profoundly disturbing, and announced the enactment of the enquiry committee to guarantee accountability.
