The incident of a 26-year-old man dodging his security to enter the playground during an IPL 2022 match between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore has been called a security lapse by the Maharashtra Cricket Association with its president Vikas Kakatkar. Has not happened.
During a match played at the MCA Stadium in Pune, with Virat Kohli batting, a man managed to enter the ground and punched RCB’s batting star before passing to Rohit Sharma. Eventually the security personnel took him out of the stadium.
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“It was definitely a security lapse. The police should not have allowed the man to run to the players. They should have stopped him before jumping over the fence. So anything can happen…’ Indian Express,
He said, ‘Even a small incident should not be allowed to happen for the safety of the players. It was a security lapse and we have taken up the matter with the police. We have asked them to take all necessary steps to ensure that such incidents do not happen again in the stadium.”
However, Pimpri-Chinchwad Police Commissioner Krishna Prakash refused to term it as a lapse on his part but said that he would revisit the existing arrangements to prevent such incidents in future. “It was not a security lapse. It was the ‘excessive enthusiasm’ of the cricket fan. How can it be a security lapse when we have deployed 600 policemen to protect the stadium and the players? We have made tight security arrangements at the stadium. Huh.”
“We do not need to review the security inside the stadium as we have put in place stringent security measures. But, yes, we will revisit this arrangement to prevent such fencing incidents in future.”
Meanwhile, former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar termed it as a ‘serious security concern’. “Recently, I haven’t heard of such incident… A spectator going to the players is a really serious safety concern. Such incidents should be avoided at any cost,” he said.
However, the man was arrested on Sunday morning and an FIR was registered against him under sections 447 (related to criminal trespass) and 353 (assault or criminal force to prevent public servant from discharging his duty) Was.
Assistant inspector Durganath Sali said, “When he was being pulled out of the ground, he beat up the policemen and created a ruckus.”
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