The mother of Ashwini, one of the victims of the tragic stampede during the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) IPL victory parade, has filed a police complaint claiming that her daughter’s gold earring went missing during the autopsy. The incident, which occurred on June 4 outside Bengaluru’s Chinnaswamy Stadium, left 11 people dead and 33 injured.
According to a Times of India report, the complaint was officially submitted on Thursday. Ashwini’s mother stated that her daughter’s earring—gifted by an uncle a year and a half ago—was missing when the body was returned post-autopsy. “Ashwini always wore those earrings. They disappeared after the post-mortem was completed,” she told TOI.
The stampede reportedly broke out due to uncontrolled crowds, which had gathered in numbers nearly ten times the stadium’s capacity, turning the celebratory parade into chaos.
In a related development, the Karnataka government has defended its suspension of senior IPS officer Vikash Kumar Vikash before the High Court. The state contended that the officer and his team failed in their duty by initiating crowd control preparations prematurely—without verifying permissions—after RCB made a last-minute parade request.
Senior Counsel P.S. Rajagopal, appearing for the state, argued that police officers acted as if they were “servants of RCB,” neglecting protocol. He highlighted that the officers should have demanded official clearance, and their inaction was a grave dereliction of duty, especially with a crowd size estimated between three and five lakh and barely 12 hours to prepare.