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A petition has been filed successful the Madras High Court urging it to callback its October 3, 2025 bid constituting a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the Karur stampede which claimed 41 lives during a run by histrion and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president C. Joseph Vijay connected September 27.
Advocate A.P. Suryaprakasam, 73, who belongs to the Congress, has filed the review/recall petition connected the crushed that the bid had been obtained by misleading the court. The lawyer said, the tribunal bid was passed connected a writ petition filed by P.H. Dinesh of Villivakkam successful Chennai but inquiries made by him revealed it was a fictitious person.
‘Petitioner fictitious’
“From my enquiry, I came to cognize that precise beingness of the writ petitioner is doubtful arsenic the code fixed by the petitioner that helium is residing astatine Babu Nagar successful Villivakkam, Chennai is utterly mendacious arsenic determination is nary specified Babu Nagar successful beingness astatine Villivakkam, Chennai,” helium claimed successful his affidavit.
Alleging a fraud had been played upon the court, the lawyer said, the Supreme Court successful A.V. Pappaya Shastri versus Government of Andhra Pradesh (2007) had categorically held that immoderate decree oregon bid obtained by playing a fraud connected the tribunal should beryllium considered arsenic a nullity and non est successful the oculus of law.
The lawyer besides accused the counsel for the writ petitioner arsenic good arsenic the instrumentality officers representing the State to person failed to bring it to the announcement of main spot of the High Court successful Chennai that the writ petition ought to person been filed lone earlier the Madurai Bench of the High Court since Karur falls nether the latter’s jurisdiction.
“The State Government Law officers besides wantonly failed to bring to the announcement of this tribunal that connected the aforesaid time greeting (i.e., connected October 3, 2025) different litigant wanted to record a writ petition pertaining to the incidental but a Division Bench (led by Justice P. Velmurugan)... directed the litigant to attack the Madurai Bench,” helium said.
“Hence, it is crystal wide that some the petitioner and the respondents person obtained the bid dated October 3 by playing a fraud upon this honourable court. Hence, to support the majesty of instrumentality and successful the involvement of justice, the abovesaid bid has to beryllium instantly reviewed and recalled,” the advocator insisted.
He besides impressed upon the request to prosecute the writ petitioner for having misled the court. The lawyer said, the writ petitioner had intentionally not made TVK arsenic 1 of the respondents which had led to the tribunal condemning the party, for having abandoned the stampede victims, without proceeding its basal connected the issue.
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“It is humbly prayed that this honourable tribunal whitethorn beryllium pleased to reappraisal and callback the bid dated October 3, 2025... If not recalled, it volition magnitude to miscarriage of justice,” the advocator added. Though the reappraisal petition had been filed successful the High Court Registry, it is yet to beryllium numbered.
Party action
The petitioner Mr. Suryaprakasam had precocious criticised the appointment of Madras High Court retired justice Aruna Jagadeesan arsenic the caput of a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) constituted by the Tamil Nadu authorities for probing into the Karur stampede tragedy.
In response, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K. Selvaperunthagai had issued a amusement origin announcement to the lawyer connected October 1 seeking an mentation arsenic to wherefore enactment should not beryllium initiated against him for having made specified criticism.
