Bengaluru Stampede, June 6 -- Nikhil Sosale, the Marketing and Revenue Head of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), has approached the Karnataka High Court to challenge his arrest relating to the stampede at Bengaluru's Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bar and Bench reported.

Sosale has argued that the manner of his arrest was unlawful, arbitrary, and infringed upon his fundamental rights.

"It is clear from the timing of the Petitioner's arrest, which is evidently the result of an oral directive of the Hon'ble Chief Minister to arrest various RCB officials - that too, in the absence of any investigation whatsoever - that the Petitioner's arrest is motivated and an attempt to shift the blame of the tragedy to RCSPL and its officials," reads Sosale's p...