The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom on Monday ordered the West Bengal authorities to file an affidavit on the loss of life of Bollywood playback singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly often known as KK, who died after his efficiency at Kolkata’s Nazrul Mancha auditorium on 31 of Might.
A division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Srivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj ordered the federal government to file the affidavit inside three weeks and requested the administration to watch out lest such tragic incidents happen sooner or later.
The directive got here as three public curiosity litigation (PIL) proceedings have been heard from three attorneys over the singer’s loss of life. One of many petitioners additionally demanded a CBI investigation into the matter. The petitioners claimed that there was “complete mismanagement” in Nazrul Manch throughout KK’s reside efficiency on Might 31. It was additionally alleged that the air con system didn’t work correctly as a result of overcrowding inflicting suffocation within the auditorium. A number of clips have been produced to say that KK felt uncomfortable throughout the efficiency and that he took a 10-minute break to relaxation in the midst of the present.
