Inquiry panel members inspect Salt Lake stadium

A day after spectators went on a rampage during Argentine football icon Lionel Messi’s event at Salt Lake stadium here, members of an inquiry committee visited the venue Sunday and took stock of the damage, officials said.

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Chief Secretary Manoj Pant, one of the members of the panel, told reporters the committee was hopeful about submitting the report after 15 days.

The three-member team examined broken plastic chairs, twisted metal barricades and littered galleries during their on-ground inspection of the stadium, one of India's largest football arenas, they said.

Led by Calcutta High Court retired judge Justice Ashim Kumar Ray, the committee members started their inspection from the point where Messi had entered the stadium, and tried to trace his movement, the officials said.