Bengaluru, June 6 -- A day after a tragic stampede outside the M Chinnaswamy Stadium left 11 people dead and over 50 injured in Bengaluru, the Karnataka High Court took suo motu cognisance of the incident and directed the State Government to file a detailed status report by June 10. In response, the Government informed the court on Thursday that the case has been transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Further a Special Investigation Team (SIT) will be constituted for a thorough and independent probe, the State informed the court.

According to the police, an FIR was registered at Cubbon Park police station under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, including Sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting t...