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The CBI has summoned histrion and TVK main Vijay connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026) for a caller circular of questioning successful transportation with the Karur stampede case, officials said.
The histrion was earlier questioned by the bureau astatine its office connected January 12 and 19.
During the probe, the CBI has gathered worldly that needs further questioning and clarification from the actor, the officials said. A caller announcement has been served to him.
The CBI took implicit the lawsuit from an SIT pursuing a Supreme Court bid and has been gathering grounds related to the September 27, 2025, stampede, which claimed 41 lives and near much than 60 radical injured, during Vijay’s rally successful Tamil Nadu’s Karur.
In October past year, the apex tribunal asked the CBI manager to name a elder serviceman to instrumentality implicit the probe and besides constituted a supervisory committee headed by erstwhile Supreme Court justice Ajay Rastogi to show the agency’s investigation.
A seat comprising Justices J.K. Maheshwari and N.V. Anjaria had said the stampede has near an imprint successful the minds of citizens passim the country. It has wide ramifications with respect to the lives of citizens, and enforcing the cardinal rights of the families who mislaid their kin is of utmost importance, the tribunal said.
“The religion and spot of the wide nationalist successful the process of probe indispensable beryllium restored successful the transgression justness system, and 1 mode to instil specified spot is by ensuring that the probe successful the contiguous lawsuit is wholly impartial, autarkic and unbiased,” the seat said.
