Kolkata, Dec 14 (PTI) 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 on Sunday and took stock of the damage, officials said.

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

The panel, also comprising Chief Secretary Manoj Pant and Home Secretary Nandini

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