New Delhi, June 19 -- It was on the night of 3 June that Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), a cricket team with a vast fan following, finally succeeded in lifting their maiden Indian Premier League (IPL) trophy after a wait of 18 long years. That this win had sent waves of excitement around the city of Bengaluru was obvious. Many fans appeared delirious with joy. But few could have expected that their celebrations would end in tragedy the very next day.

A victory procession that seems to have been organized in a hurry led crowds of fans thronging to a stadium in Bengaluru, where the gathering unexpectedly swelled beyond the ability of the security personnel to handle, resulting in a stampede that took several lives and left many injured....