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State Advocate-General gave this assurance earlier than a Division Bench, comprising Justice Jayant Banerji and Justice Umesh M. Adiga, through the listening to on a petition filed by DNA Entertainment Networks Pvt. Ltd., the occasion administration accomplice of Royal Challengers Sports Pvt. Ltd., which owns Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB).
DNA had filed the petition complaining that the fee violated the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act (CoI Act), 1952, within the process adopted in conducting the inquiry, whereas contending that the fee had not given a possibility to DNA to cross-examine witnesses.
While it has been alleged within the petition that the federal government had leaked the fee’s report back to the media, the A-G instructed the courtroom the federal government had nothing to do with reviews within the media.
In response to A-G Shashi Kiran Shetty’s enterprise, senior advocate BK. Sampath Kumar, showing for DNA, instructed the Bench that the federal government, whereas refusing to present a duplicate of the fee’s report back to DNA, had responded in writing that the report of the fee was already given to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is probing the stampede incident based mostly on three First info Reports registered on June 5.
However, the A-G mentioned that the CID has been investigating the stampede incident from June.
Meanwhile, the Bench orally remarked that “some observations within the fee’s report are surprising… they’re all not hardened criminals… we do not make any observations at this stage”, whereas adjourning listening to on the petition until September 4 because the A-G said that the federal government would file its written objection to the petition.
Earlier, the Bench posed some inquiries to the A-G about sure variations within the process adopted by the fee and the provisions within the Act.
Published – August 13, 2025 10:26 pm IST
