Overview
- Police say two subcontracted workers disabled about 240 cameras at Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium on April 24, disrupting match-day surveillance for parts of the venue.
- An FIR was filed at Cubbon Park police station under Section 324(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, with Manjunath E and Abdul Kalam identified, booked, and questioned as the probe continues.
- The complaint by Aditya Bhat of Staqu Technologies states the duo used a deactivated access card to enter the control room and damaged Network Video Recorders and fibre connections.
- KSCA says the disabled system was a privately installed operational network and not the Bengaluru City Police setup, and that monitoring was restored before gates opened and the match proceeded normally.
- Investigators report the accused cited unpaid dues of roughly Rs 10 lakh as the motive, and officials are reviewing vendor access and oversight after other recent operational issues at the stadium.