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The CBI has asked histrion and TVK main Vijay to look earlier it connected March 15 successful New Delhi successful the Karur stampede case, officials said connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026).
The agency, which questioned Vijay doubly successful January, had again summoned the histrion connected March 9, but helium had requested that it beryllium deferred by 15 days, they said.
The histrion had besides urged that the questioning beryllium conducted successful Chennai oregon immoderate bureau successful Tamil Nadu, citing governmental engagements owed to upcoming Assembly elections successful the State, they said.
The CBI has present asked him to look connected March 15 successful Delhi astatine the bureau headquarters, they said.
The cardinal probe bureau has besides asked the DMK MLA from Karur, Senthil Balaji, to look for questioning connected March 17, they said.
In a connection posted connected ‘X’ successful Tamil, Mr. Balaji, a erstwhile State Minister, wrote that helium intends to look earlier the CBI connected March 17 and springiness clarification regarding the Karur stampede tragedy.
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 that 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 investigation. It besides established a supervisory committee, chaired 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.
