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RCB Breaks Silence With 'RCB Cares' After Bengaluru Stampede

The message arrives as inquiries fault the franchise, with questions over operational responsibility persisting.

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'Our Silence Wasn't Absence': RCB Ends 3-Month Social Media Hiatus With Post On Bengaluru Stampede
RCB at Chinnaswamy | Image: RCB
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Overview

  • Royal Challengers Bengaluru ended an 84–85 day hiatus with a post saying "The Silence wasn’t Absence. It was Grief," unveiling an initiative called RCB Cares with details promised later.
  • The June 4 crowd crush outside M. Chinnaswamy Stadium during victory celebrations left 11 dead and more than 50 injured, according to multiple reports.
  • The Karnataka government ordered a probe and lodged an FIR naming RCB, the event organiser DNA Entertainment, and the KSCA, with a judicial commission recommending appropriate legal action.
  • Justice D’Cunha’s commission said the stadium is unfit for large public events and blamed RCB, DNA and the KSCA, after which certain cricket fixtures were moved out of Bengaluru.
  • The Central Administrative Tribunal held RCB prima facie responsible, citing a crowd of three to five lakh assembled without appropriate police permission.