Why was RCB advertising and marketing head Nikhil Sosale arrested?
Jun 06, 2025 09:53 AM IST
Nikhil Sosale, the top of selling and income for RCB at Diageo India, was taken into custody on the Bengaluru airport.
Bengaluru police on Friday arrested the advertising and marketing head of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), Nikhil Sosale, in reference to the stampede that occurred outdoors M Chinnaswamy stadium in the course of the IPL champions’ victory celebration on Wednesday, June 4.
In line with a report by India As we speak, the top of selling and income for RCB at Diageo India was taken into custody on the Bengaluru airport when he was reportedly flying out to Mumbai.
The report urged that Sosale wasn’t the one arrest made within the case. Three workers members of DNA Leisure Networks Non-public Restricted, the organisers of the victory celebrations, had been additionally detained by the police. The report recognized the three detained individuals as Kiran, Sumanth and Sunil Mathew, who had been taken in for questioning.
Why was Nikhil Sosale arrested?
Nikhil SOsale was arrested after Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday ordered the arrest of representatives of the RCB franchise, the occasion administration agency DNA Leisure Non-public Restricted, and the Karnataka State Cricket Affiliation (KSCA).
The order got here hours after an FIR was registered towards them below varied costs, together with culpable murder not amounting to homicide, in reference to the stampede that killed 11 individuals. He additionally suspended Bengaluru police commissioner B Dayananda and several other different senior police officers.
The Bengaluru stampede case
The stampede occurred on Wednesday night outdoors the stadium in Bengaluru, the place a lot of individuals thronged to take part in RCB’s first-ever IPL victory celebrations.
The FIRs had been registered following a criticism by a police inspector at Cubbon Park station, police stated.
The FIR charged voluntarily inflicting damage (part 115), voluntarily inflicting damage or grievous damage by utilizing harmful weapons or means (part 118), voluntarily inflicting damage or grievous damage to discourage a public servant from his obligation (part 121), and illegal meeting (part 190) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
