Who is Nikhil Sosale? Top RCB official and friend of Virat Kohli, Anushka Sharma who got arrested for stampede case

Nikhil Sosale got arrested at Bengaluru airport following the stampede case. (Photo: X)

Nikhil Sosale of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) management was taken into custody by the Bengaluru Police on Friday morning in connection with the stampede incident that took place during the team's first Indian Premier League (IPL) victory celebrations on Wednesday. Sunil Mathew of DNA, an event management business, was also taken into custody by the police.

Nikhil Sosale is RCB's head of revenue and marketing at Diageo India. When he was allegedly flying to Mumbai, the police arrested him at the Bengaluru airport.

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Three employees of DNA Entertainment Networks Pvt. Ltd. have also been taken into custody by the police, India Today reports.

Sosale was present at all of the 2025 RCB IPL matches and was frequently spotted sitting in the stands with Anushka Sharma, the wife of Virat Kohli.

Sosale has been connected to the franchise since the beginning. As per LinkedIn, he is in charge of the business and marketing charter's design, strategy, and implementation for the top IPL brand and commercial campaign.

Sosale is a James Cook University double major in business, according to his LinkedIn profile. He studied for the degree between 2008 and 2010.

Malvika Nayak, the head of the business development and partnerships division at Innoz Technologies Pvt. Ltd, is married to Nikhil Sosale. Nikhil and Malvika have frequently been seen with Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma.

There are 637 followers on the RCB marketing head's private Instagram account. He is followed on the popular platform by both Virat and Anushka.

11 people were killed and 33 injured in a stampede outside Bengaluru's M Chinnaswamy Stadium during the RCB's victory celebrations on Wednesday. A day later, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had asked that the RCB, DNA, and Karnataka State Cricket Association executives be taken into custody.

A number of high-ranking police officers, including Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda, were also suspended, according to the state administration.

To look into the matter, a one-person judicial commission has also been established. Justice Michael D'Cunha, a retired judge from the Karnataka High Court, is in charge of it.

The deadline for the commission's report is 30 days. They also asked that the RCB representative, DNA event managers, and the KSCA representative be arrested right away by the state's IGP and DGP.

RCB won the IPL 2025 championship on Tuesday. They defeated the Punjab Kings in the final at the Narendra Modi Stadium to win the tournament and snap their trophy drought.

In Bengaluru, a parade was announced after this triumph. Permission for the same was first denied by the Bengaluru Police. On social media, however, RCB said that the parade would start at 3 PM and go from the Vidhana Soudha to the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

RCB is facing a lot of criticism for carrying on with the festivities inside the stadium in spite of the stampede outside.

Financial assistance for each of the 11 families who lost a family member in the stampede was announced by RCB on Thursday. For the benefit of the 33 more injured, the team has also established a fund called "RCB Cares."