Bengaluru, June 5 -- Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the stampede outside the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru that claimed the lives of 11 people, even as the opposition blamed the Congress-led government for lapses in planning for the felicitation ceremony for Royal Challenger Bengaluru's (RCB) maiden Indian Premier League (IPL) title.

While the Karnataka government termed the incident an "unexpected tragedy", the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) questioned the police deployment and permission to conduct the event. Former police officials and eyewitnesses also pointed to a series of administrative failures -- from lack of crowd control to unclear instructions about access -...