Bengaluru, June 13 -- The Karnataka high court on Thursday granted bail to Nikhil Sosale, head of marketing at Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), and three others, observing that they were all arrested illegally, without any credible evidence or investigation linking them to the June 4 crush at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru that killed 11 people and injured over 50 others.

Justice SR Krishna Kumar said the police "had neither conducted any investigation nor produced any credible material" to show they had reason to believe that Sosale and the other petitioners were involved in the alleged offences at the time of their arrest.

The judge further said that merely holding top positions in the organisations was not enough to justify t...