Seemanth Kumar Singh’s appointment comes simply hours after Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah suspended Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda for dereliction of obligation in a stampede outdoors Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Karnataka IPS officer Seemanth Kumar Singh was on Thursday named as the brand new Bengaluru Police Commissioner after Chief Minister Siddaramaiah suspended high cop B Dayananda and different officers within the wake of the Chinnaswamy Stadium stampede that killed 11 folks.
Who’s Seemanth Kumar Singh?
A 1996-batch IPS officer, Seemanth Singh is presently the Further Director Basic of Police, Bengaluru Metropolitan Process Power. He has been appointed Further Director Basic of Police and Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru Metropolis, till additional orders.
Siddaramaiah suspends Bengaluru Police Commissioner, high officers
In an enormous growth, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah earlier within the day suspended Bengaluru Police commissioner B Dayananda and several other different senior police officers in reference to the stampede outdoors the Chinnaswamy Stadium that killed 11 folks. He additionally ordered the arrest of representatives of the RCB staff, the occasion administration agency DNA Leisure Personal Restricted, and the Karnataka State Cricket Affiliation (KSCA), hours after an FIR was registered towards them underneath varied prices, together with culpable murder not amounting to homicide.
The state authorities’s motion got here amidst an all-out assault by the BJP, which has demanded the resignations of Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivkumar, who accused it of enjoying “soiled politics”.
State authorities types one-man judicial fee
Talking to reporters after a Cupboard assembly, the Chief Minister introduced a one-man judicial probe, headed by Justice Michael D’Cunha, a retired Excessive Courtroom choose of Karnataka, into the tragic incident.
“We’ve got informed the fee to provide the report in 30 days,” Siddaramaiah stated and added that “the Cupboard has additionally determined to right away droop the Circle Police Inspector of the Cubbon Park Police Station AK Girish and Assistant Commissioner of Police C Balakrishna, Deputy Commissioner of Police of the central division Shekhar H Tekkannavar, Further Commissioner of Police Vikash Kumar Vikash, who’s in command of the stadium, and Commissioner of Police Bengaluru metropolis Dayananda.”
Karnataka authorities to formulate SOPs for mega occasions
Earlier within the day, Karnataka House Minister Parameshwara introduced that the federal government will formulate a brand new Normal Working Process (SOP) for mega occasions, conferences, and celebrations to stop any untoward incidents.In the meantime, the households of those that died within the tragic incident on Wednesday remained inconsolable and blamed the authorities for the stampede. “Why did not they make correct preparations? Go and see Mysore Palace Street – for political occasions, they prepare every thing. For this celebration, they need to have had correct planning. Intelligence ought to have been there,” stated Shivakumar, the grieving father of 15-year-old Divyanshi.