Overview
- Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accepted Sports Minister Aroop Biswas’s resignation, and a Special Investigation Team of senior IPS officers has been constituted to examine failures at Salt Lake Stadium.
- The state issued show-cause notices to DGP Rajeev Kumar, Bidhannagar police commissioner Mukesh Kumar and the sports principal secretary; DCP Aneesh Sarkar was suspended and the stadium CEO was removed.
- Event organiser Satadru Dutta was arrested and remanded in custody, and police said five people were arrested over vandalism and attacks on officers at the venue.
- Investigators flagged SOP violations such as bottled-water sales and excessive pitch access, and media reports citing probes point to large distributions of complimentary and field-of-play passes now under review.
- Messi concluded his itinerary with smooth events in Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi, visited Jamnagar’s Vantara, and posted a farewell video that omitted on-field footage from the Kolkata stadium.