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Bengaluru stampede: Chief Secretary will preserve all communications, Govt. tells Karnataka HC
The Advocate General, representing the State government, on Thursday gave an undertaking to the High Court of Karnataka that all the original communications/correspondents, be it offline or online, between various authorities/ individuals of the State government and others will be preserved by the Chief Secretary to the State.
An assurance in this regard was given before a division bench comprising acting Chief Justice V. Kameswar Rao and Justice C.M. Joshi during the hearing on a PIL petition, which the court suo motu initiated on June 5, over the June 4 stampede incident outside M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in which 11 persons had died.
When the bench said that all communications will have to be preserved, A-G Shashi Kiran Shetty said that the government will undertake the responsibility.
Meanwhile, the bench took on record the report submitted in sealed cover by the State government to the nine questions posed by the bench earlier about the RCB victory celebrations that led to a stampede outside the stadium.
As many individuals and advocates filed applications to be interveners in the proceedings on this PIL to raise several issues, including the issue non-following of 'a guide for State government, local authorities, administrators and organisers for managing crowd at events and venues of mass gathering', prepared and notified by the National Disaster Management Authority, in Karnataka, the bench said that it would take a call on considering the applications at a later stage.
The bench said that it would further hear the petition on June 17 after going through the response to its queries filed by the government.
