Bengaluru stampede: City police chief suspended, new Commissioner posted
Bengaluru stampede: City police chief suspended, new Commissioner posted
A day after a stampede claimed the lives of 11 and left 56 injured at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here during revelry to celebrate Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s (RCB) victory in IPL-2025, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday (June 5, 2025) announced that Bengaluru Police Commissioner B. Dayananda and all police officials responsible for the jurisdiction where the stadium is, have been suspended, pending inquiry.
Late on Thursday (June 5, 2025), the government named Seemanth Kumar Singh, a 1996 batch IPS officer, presently posted as Additional Director-General of Police, Bengaluru Metropolitan Task Force, as the new city Police Commissioner.
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