Rejecting State Government’s Please to Keep Its Status Report on Stampede case in a seled cover, The High Court of Karnataka has directed the government to give copies of the report, dated juice to the parts to the part Petition, which the court suo motu Had Initiated Taking Cognisance of Death of 11 Persons in the Stampede Occurred on June 4 Outdeide M. Chinnaswamy Stadium during RCB’s Victory Celebrations.
A Division Bench Comprising Acting Chief Justice V. Kameswar Rao and Justice CM Joshi Passed The Order While Rejecting The Stand of the Government that if the status report is disclosed, the magisterial inquiry and the one-man Commission of Inquiry May Get Influenced by the Status Report Submitted Before The Court.
Not National Security
Pointing out that is the issue involved is not of national security or privacy rights, the bench said the ground that the magisterial procedure/judicial communication of inquiry Urged by the state in the status report Commission/Magisterial Inquiry cannot be susceptible to influences emanating from the status report. “
Referring to certain documents, which the government initially declined to make public, the bench said that this was Neither Privileged Documents Nor They Were The Investigation Deringing Case registered on the stampede incident. The bench noted that some of the documents, which the government was wanted to be kept in seled covers, was of the year 2019 and some other was about deployment of police personnel and arrangements Authority on Prior Occasions and June 6, the date on which the stampede occurred.
