<p>Bengaluru: DNA Entertainment Networks, the event management company tasked with end-to-end organising of the events of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), told the Karnataka High Court that the Bengaluru stampede was due to the "lack of police deployment and police indulging in lathi-charge" outside the gates of M Chinnaswamy stadium. </p><p>In its petition, challenging the FIRs pertaining to the stampede, the company, represented by its Managing Director Venkata Vardhana Thimmaiah, said that it was the brainchild of the state government to felicitate the RCB players at the grand steps of the Vidhana Soudha.</p>.Bengaluru stampede: CCB made arrest because CM ordered, says lawyer of RCB's marketing head to HC.<p>“Stampede is the result of the program of the state government at the Vidhana Soudha from where lakhs of fans followed the team bus to the stadium without any proportionate police presence at the stadium, similar to the police presence at the Vidhana Soudha,” the petition said.</p><p>The petition added that the stampede occurred as the police "did not provide sufficient personnel" commensurate with the size of the crowd that suddenly gathered. "In fact, the majority of the police force was concentrated at the Vidhana Soudha, leaving the stadium to the mercy of the huge crowds which had gathered outside to get a glimpse of the team players," the petition said.</p><p>According to the petitioner, it had deployed 584 private security guards inside the stadium and also volunteers to guide the fans. It said it had arranged for 70 ticket-validators at the stadium. The petition said that the gates were opened only at 3.30 pm after getting clearance from the Cubbon Park police inspector AK Girisha.</p><p>The petitioner further claimed that it is only a company which was responsible for handling everything inside the stadium. “Neither was the victory celebration an event of the petitioner, nor its program and the petitioner never called anybody to the event nor made any public post inviting the general public nor did it advertise the event on any media in any form or manner. Thus, no liability can be affixed upon the petitioner, let alone criminal culpability,” the petition said.</p>
<p>Bengaluru: DNA Entertainment Networks, the event management company tasked with end-to-end organising of the events of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), told the Karnataka High Court that the Bengaluru stampede was due to the "lack of police deployment and police indulging in lathi-charge" outside the gates of M Chinnaswamy stadium. </p><p>In its petition, challenging the FIRs pertaining to the stampede, the company, represented by its Managing Director Venkata Vardhana Thimmaiah, said that it was the brainchild of the state government to felicitate the RCB players at the grand steps of the Vidhana Soudha.</p>.Bengaluru stampede: CCB made arrest because CM ordered, says lawyer of RCB's marketing head to HC.<p>“Stampede is the result of the program of the state government at the Vidhana Soudha from where lakhs of fans followed the team bus to the stadium without any proportionate police presence at the stadium, similar to the police presence at the Vidhana Soudha,” the petition said.</p><p>The petition added that the stampede occurred as the police "did not provide sufficient personnel" commensurate with the size of the crowd that suddenly gathered. "In fact, the majority of the police force was concentrated at the Vidhana Soudha, leaving the stadium to the mercy of the huge crowds which had gathered outside to get a glimpse of the team players," the petition said.</p><p>According to the petitioner, it had deployed 584 private security guards inside the stadium and also volunteers to guide the fans. It said it had arranged for 70 ticket-validators at the stadium. The petition said that the gates were opened only at 3.30 pm after getting clearance from the Cubbon Park police inspector AK Girisha.</p><p>The petitioner further claimed that it is only a company which was responsible for handling everything inside the stadium. “Neither was the victory celebration an event of the petitioner, nor its program and the petitioner never called anybody to the event nor made any public post inviting the general public nor did it advertise the event on any media in any form or manner. Thus, no liability can be affixed upon the petitioner, let alone criminal culpability,” the petition said.</p>