Bengaluru, June 12 -- Karnataka Leader of the Opposition R Ashoka has written a letter to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seeking urgent intervention and a comprehensive probe into the recent stampede in Bengaluru during the IPL victory celebration of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), which claimed 11 lives and injured at least 75 people.

On Thursday, Ashoka urged the NHRC to take suo motu cognisance of what he described as a grave human rights violation caused by alleged gross negligence and administrative failure during the public event held on June 4 near M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Ashoka called the incident "an unfortunate accident," but several eyewitness accounts and preliminary findings suggest that the stampede was not ...