Waited for 4 hours to file FIR 15-year-old stampede victim's family

    Bengaluru, Jun 5 (PTI) The family of the 15-year-old girl, Divyanshi, who died in the stampede outside Chinnaswamy stadium here, said they had to wait nearly four hours before an FIR could be filed.
    Relatives gathered at the home of the grieving family in Bengaluru's Yelahanka as the teen's body was taken for last rites.
    Her grieving father, Shivakumar, recounted how his daughter fell after being pushed at Gate Number 15. His wife and sister-in-law were also present then, he added.
    "They (officials) came and visited (afterwards), but no proper support was provided. They didn't even give proper first aid. My wife said she was begging for some support. Finally, my daughter was taken in an auto, with no support from the police. Even to file an FIR, we had to wait four hours," Shivakumar said.
    The girl's body has been taken to Andhra Pradesh for the last rites and cremation, he added.
    He also said the government should take total responsibility.
    "Why didn't they make proper arrangements? Go and see Mysore Palace Road -- for political events, they arrange everything. For this celebration, they should have had proper planning. Intelligence should have been there," he added.
    When PTI contacted, officials at Cubbon Park police station said a case of unnatural death had been filed in the stampede incident.
    Meanwhile, the mortal remains of Kamatchi Devi, a 28-year-old software engineer, who too died in the stampede, were taken to her hometown Udumalaipettai in Tiruppur district of Tamil Nadu, for the last rites on Thursday.
    Devi, who was working in Bengaluru, had gone to celebrate Royal Challengers Bangalore's IPL victory at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. She was caught in the crowd surge and died.
    Her mortal remains were taken to Vivekananda School in Udumalaipettai, where relatives, friends, and local residents gathered to pay their last respects.
    The body of a 27-year-old Chartered Accountant, Akshata, another victim of the stampede incident, arrived at her hometown, Siddapura in Uttara Kannada district, on Thursday afternoon.
    Akshata's husband, Ashay, who managed to survive the stampede, told PTI Videos: "I was standing beside a barricade and she was standing, holding my hand. Then people started pushing each other and some fell over me and some over her. Since I was in a corner, some people managed to pull me aside but I lost my grip on my wife's hand. I screamed for help for quite some time."
    Ashay said he finally went to the hospital where she was taken and identified her.
    "The doctor said she died at the stampede spot, before she was brought to hospital," added Ashay.
    The two were married a year and a half ago. Ardent RCB fans, they had decided to celebrate the IPL victory by participating in the road show. But when they realised the road show was cancelled, they headed to the Chinnaswamy stadium.
    On Wednesday night, after visiting the Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital and Vydehi Super Speciality Hospital, where most of the injured were admitted, Karnataka's Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, told the reporters gathered that the "unexpected tragedy" shouldn't have happened.
    Stating that most of the deceased are youth, including men and women, with several of them being students, the CM said the government has announced Rs 10 lakh compensation to the kin of each deceased.
    He also said the injured will be provided free treatment.

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