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 head of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), Nikhil Sosale, in reference to the stampede that occurred exterior M Chinnaswamy stadium throughout the IPL champions’ victory celebration on Wednesday, June 4.

Fans throng close to the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on June 4, 2025, to have a good time a day after the victory of RCB within the IPL remaining cricket match(AFP)

According to a report by India Today, 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 advised that Sosale wasn’t the one arrest made within the case. Three workers members of DNA Entertainment Networks Private Limited, the organisers of the victory celebrations, have been additionally detained by the police. The report recognized the three detained folks as Kiran, Sumanth and Sunil Mathew, who have 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 Entertainment Private Limited, and the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA).

The order got here hours after an FIR was registered in opposition to them beneath varied costs, together with culpable murder not amounting to homicide, in reference to the stampede that killed 11 folks. He additionally suspended Bengaluru police commissioner B Dayananda and a number of other different senior police officers.

The Bengaluru stampede case

The stampede occurred on Wednesday night exterior the stadium in Bengaluru, the place a lot of folks thronged to take part in RCB’s first-ever IPL victory celebrations.

The FIRs have been registered following a grievance 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.