New Delhi, June 6 -- Two days after the tragic stampede in Bengaluru's Chinnaswamy Stadium, K Govindaraj has been relieved from the post of political secretary to the Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah with immediate effect, said a state government notification.

Apart from this, Hemanth Nimbalkar, Karnataka's Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence), has been transferred without a new posting amid the outrage over Bengaluru stampede, reported News18 quoting sources.

Earlier on 5 June, the Karnataka police suspended multiple IPS officers, including the Bengaluru city police Commissioner, B Dayananda. Senior IPS officer Seemant Kumar Singh took charge as the city police commissioner on Friday.

In the stampede that took pla...