Plaque unveiled in memory of 11 people who lost their lives in stampede at RCB victory celebrations

Home Minister G. Parameshwara unveiled a plaque astatine the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium present connected Wednesday successful representation of the 11 lives that were mislaid successful the stampede that occurred during RCB’s triumph celebrations past year.

Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) president Venkatesh Prasad and MLA N.A. Haris attended the sombre occasion.

Families not present

The household of the stampede victims, however, were not present. A KSCA authoritative stated that a conscious determination was made by the authorities not to invitation household members of the victims, arsenic it mightiness trigger emotions from reliving the tragic incident.

“The relation reaffirmed its resoluteness to guarantee that each aboriginal events astatine the stadium are conducted with the highest standards of safety, coordination, and professionalism, successful enactment with the expectations of stakeholders and the public,” a KSCA connection read.

Take responsibility

Mr. Parameshwara explained that RCB and KSCA indispensable instrumentality work for conducting matches safely.

“Whatever work they (RCB) take, they person to agree. KSCA has a definite portion, and RCB has a definite portion. I person held 2 oregon 3 meetings wherever I person told the KSCA and RCB that they volition person to beryllium liable for immoderate happens hereafter. Everybody has to beryllium responsible, adjacent our constabulary force. I person told our constabulary unit to deploy a larger fig of officers truthful that thing untoward happens,” Mr. Parameshwara said.