India, June 6 -- The Karnataka high court on Thursday raised serious concerns over the planning and preparedness of the IPL victory celebrations that triggered a deadly stampede outside Bengaluru's M Chinnaswamy Stadium, directing the state government to submit detailed responses on key aspects, including who authorised the event, what crowd control and emergency measures were in place, and whether there had been any advance assessment of the turnout.

A bench of acting chief justice V Kameswar Rao and justice CM Joshi asked the state pointedly whether permissions had even been sought to organise such a celebration, whether a standard operating procedure exists for managing crowds above 50,000, and if immediate medical help was extended t...