K'taka plans strict crowd control law
Bengaluru, June 20 -- The Karnataka government is planning to enact a legislation on crowd control and management, state law and parliamentary affairs minister HK Patil said on Thursday, with the draft proposing up to three years in jail or a fine of up to Rs 5 lakh for organisers who fail to obtain permission.
The proposed law - Karnataka Crowd Control (Managing Crowd at Events and Venues of Mass Gathering) Bill, 2025 - was discussed at the state cabinet meeting on Thursday along with three others, and is likely to be placed for approval during the next meeting, the minister said.
The crowd control bill has been proposed days after 11 people were killed in a stampede on June 4 outside the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru during the IPL v...
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