<p>Bengaluru: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has sought a response from the state government regarding the suspension of a senior Bengaluru police officer following the stampede in the city on June 4 that killed 11 people and injured dozens.</p><p>Top police sources confirmed the development to <em>DH</em> and said that the government would respond to the CAT notice on Tuesday.</p><p>“The CAT sought the grounds and reasoning behind the suspension of Vikas Kumar Vikas, who was Additional Commissioner of Police (West), Bengaluru, when the incident occurred,” the sources said.</p>.B’luru stampede: BJP to hold statewide protest on Tuesday.<p>Vikas was one among the five senior officers suspended by the government, including Bengaluru police commissioner B Dayananda, a day after the deaths at the M Chinnaswamy stadium, where a celebration was held after Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) won their maiden IPL title on June 3.</p><p>He was also in charge of stadium security. However, it was only Vikas who moved the tribunal challenging the suspension. He had filed his application on June 6, as per an acknowledgement document seen by DH.</p><p>The sudden suspension of the top brass of the city police raised eyebrows among the public, and many inside the department began questioning the move.</p><p>Multiple senior officers in Bengaluru that DH spoke to said the government hurriedly suspended the senior officers.</p><p>“At least a preliminary inquiry should’ve been conducted first, before the government concluded that the fault was with police officers,” one of the officers said.</p><p>Apart from Dayananda and Vikas, the government also suspended Shekhar H Tekkannavar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central); C Balakrishna, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Cubbon Park sub-division; and A K Girish, Police Inspector, Cubbon Park police station.</p><p>In the order, the government said there was “substantial dereliction of duty” by the suspended officers, which “brought a lot of misery, loss of precious life and embarrassment to the government”. </p><p>The government said in the suspension order that police had not taken adequate steps for the celebrations and failed to give adequate information to the public to take necessary precautionary steps.</p>
<p>Bengaluru: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has sought a response from the state government regarding the suspension of a senior Bengaluru police officer following the stampede in the city on June 4 that killed 11 people and injured dozens.</p><p>Top police sources confirmed the development to <em>DH</em> and said that the government would respond to the CAT notice on Tuesday.</p><p>“The CAT sought the grounds and reasoning behind the suspension of Vikas Kumar Vikas, who was Additional Commissioner of Police (West), Bengaluru, when the incident occurred,” the sources said.</p>.B’luru stampede: BJP to hold statewide protest on Tuesday.<p>Vikas was one among the five senior officers suspended by the government, including Bengaluru police commissioner B Dayananda, a day after the deaths at the M Chinnaswamy stadium, where a celebration was held after Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) won their maiden IPL title on June 3.</p><p>He was also in charge of stadium security. However, it was only Vikas who moved the tribunal challenging the suspension. He had filed his application on June 6, as per an acknowledgement document seen by DH.</p><p>The sudden suspension of the top brass of the city police raised eyebrows among the public, and many inside the department began questioning the move.</p><p>Multiple senior officers in Bengaluru that DH spoke to said the government hurriedly suspended the senior officers.</p><p>“At least a preliminary inquiry should’ve been conducted first, before the government concluded that the fault was with police officers,” one of the officers said.</p><p>Apart from Dayananda and Vikas, the government also suspended Shekhar H Tekkannavar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central); C Balakrishna, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Cubbon Park sub-division; and A K Girish, Police Inspector, Cubbon Park police station.</p><p>In the order, the government said there was “substantial dereliction of duty” by the suspended officers, which “brought a lot of misery, loss of precious life and embarrassment to the government”. </p><p>The government said in the suspension order that police had not taken adequate steps for the celebrations and failed to give adequate information to the public to take necessary precautionary steps.</p>