Bengaluru stampede: Compensation raised to Rs 25 lakh; KSCA secretary resigns

NEW DELHI: Karnataka main curate Siddaramaiah has announced an summation successful compensation for the families of those who died successful the tragic stampede extracurricular the M Chinnaswamy Stadium to Rs 25 lakh each, up from the earlier Rs 10 lakh.

The incidental connected June 4, during Royal Challengers Bengaluru's (RCB) IPL triumph celebration, claimed 11 lives and injured 56 others.The determination comes arsenic portion of the government's broader effect to the tragedy, which has triggered nationalist outrage implicit mismanagement and a deficiency of assemblage power astatine the high-profile event.Retired HC justice to pb inquiryThe Karnataka authorities has constituted a one-man enquiry committee nether retired High Court justice John Michael Cunha to analyse the circumstances starring to the stampede.

The committee volition place lapses, omissions, and those responsible, and urge measures to forestall akin incidents successful the future. As per the government's directive, the sheet is expected to taxable its study wrong 30 days.An authoritative notification dated June 5 confirmed that the committee volition relation nether the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952, with afloat powers to summon witnesses and analyse grounds nether the Civil Procedure Code.

KSCA officials resignIn the aftermath of the tragedy, 2 apical officials of the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA), caput A Shankar and treasurer ES Jairam, resigned from their posts connected Saturday, taking "moral responsibility" for the stampede.KSCA president Raghuram Bhat said the resignations were accepted during an exigency managing committee meeting. "We are acceptable to cooperate afloat with the authorities and the precocious court.

We person thing to hide," Bhat told reporters.Also read: RCB triumph shadowed by stampede tragedy: Tears regenerate cheers successful Bengaluru - Check afloat database of victimsHe added that the KSCA would supply each indispensable enactment to the ongoing probe and emphasised that transparency would beryllium maintained passim the process.The stampede occurred extracurricular the stadium connected the evening of June 4 arsenic thousands gathered for the RCB team's celebratory lawsuit aft winning their maiden IPL title. The assemblage swelled beyond control, triggering a deadly unreserved that led to aggregate fatalities and injuries.