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The Supreme Court-appointed committee overseeing the CBI probe into the Karur stampede, which claimed 41 lives astatine a rally addressed by Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam president Vijay connected September 27, visited Velusamypuram, the tract of the stampede, connected Wednesday.
Accompanied by Additional Directors-General of Police Sumit Sharan and Sonal V. Mishra, the members of the committee, led by retired Supreme Court justice Ajay Rastogi, inspected the spot wherever Mr. Vijay addressed the nationalist from atop his run vehicle, and the spots were ambulances picked up dormant bodies oregon the injured.
They besides studied the topography of the venue, its attack roads, shops and buildings wherever CCTV footage was collected, among different areas. Mr. Justice Rastogi examined each spot astatine Ground Zero, mapping the series of events that led to the stampede.
The CBI officials, who person been staying successful Karur for implicit 5 weeks since the Supreme Court transferred the lawsuit to the Central bureau from the Madras High Court-constituted Special Investigation Team, explained the advancement made connected the case.
Mr. Justice Rastogi held discussions with CBI DIG Atul Kumar Thakur and Superintendent of Police Praveen Kumar. The committee members spent astir 20 minutes astatine the tract of the stampede. Superintendent of Police, Karur, K. Josh Thangaiah, was contiguous erstwhile the sheet carried retired the inspection.
The committee members studied whether each modular information and information protocols were followed. They besides checked the adequacy of assemblage power measures, the exigency effect strategy and others.
Later, Mr. Justice Rastogi and others visited the Uzhavar Sandhai ground, the Light House junction, and the autobus basal roundabout successful Karur, wherever the TVK had primitively sought support to clasp the rally earlier the allocation of Velusamypuram. After analysing the crushed details, the squad members subsequently returned to the Circuit House, which is being utilized arsenic the impermanent bureau of the CBI. Mr. Thangaiah and a fewer elder constabulary officials appeared earlier the sheet members for the 2nd consecutive time connected Wednesday. He spent astir 2 hours answering queries.
A fig of persons including the household members of the deceased met Justice Rastogi connected Tuesday and presented petitions and made their submissions. Karur Collector M. Thangavel appeared earlier the committee connected its archetypal time of the visit.
A radical of 5 doctors, who were portion of the doctors engaged for performing station mortem connected the dormant bodies, appeared earlier the CBI officials for the inquiry.
