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The Madras High Court is each acceptable to hear, connected Monday (October 27, 2025), a batch of cases related to histrion C. Joseph Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), the Karur stampede calamity that claimed 41 lives during his campaign connected September 27 and the request to formulate guidelines/Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for each kinds of governmental campaigns successful the future.
The archetypal Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan is slated to perceive each those cases and the archetypal among them would beryllium the 2nd anticipatory bail petition filed by TVK wide caput ‘Bussy’ Anand, alias N. Anand, successful a culpable homicide case booked against him by the Karur Town constabulary pursuant to the decease of 41 people.
Justice M. Jothiraman had dismissed his archetypal anticipatory bail plea during the Dussehra abrogation sitting successful the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court connected October 3. About 10 days thereafter, helium had filed a 2nd beforehand bail plea successful the Madurai Bench connected October 14 by including the Karur Town constabulary arsenic the respondent, though the Supreme Court had transferred the lawsuit to the CBI connected October 13.
Karur stampede: A ocular timeline connected however the calamity unfolded
His 2nd petition has present been transferred to the main spot of the High Court and listed nether the caption ‘For Withdrawal’ earlier the Chief Justice’s Bench. Another writ petition filed successful the Madurai Bench by party-in-person K. Rajan, seeking disciplinary enactment against Karur Collector and Superintendent of Police, has besides been transferred to Chennai and listed earlier the archetypal Division Bench.
Apart from these 2 cases, a petition filed by TVK astatine the main spot successful Chennai connected September 16, complaining astir “onerous” conditions imposed by the constabulary for its governmental campaigns, has besides been listed earlier the Chief Justice’s Bench. This petition was filed earlier the Karur calamity and close then, Justice N. Sathish Kumar had called upon the State authorities to framework guidelines for governmental campaigns.
However, since the Supreme Court felt that the contented of framing guidelines/SOP indispensable beryllium dealt with lone by a Division Bench and not a azygous judge, it had present been listed earlier the Chief Justice’s Bench on with respective different idiosyncratic writ petitions filed successful the Madurai Bench insisting that drone surveillance, occurrence information precautions, proviso of drinking h2o and aesculapian facilities indispensable beryllium mandatory during governmental campaigns.
Aadhav Arjuna’s petition
The Chief Justice’s Bench would besides beryllium proceeding connected Monday (October 27, 2025) a petition filed by TVK wide caput (election run management) Aadhav Arjuna for quashing a First Information Report (FIR) registered against him pursuant to his allegedly inflammatory tweet insinuating a revolt against the Tamil Nadu authorities by the youngsters and Gen Z arsenic it had happened successful Sri Lanka and Nepal.
Though the FIR quash petition would mostly get listed lone earlier a azygous justice holding the transgression portfolio, the Registry had listed this petition excessively earlier the Chief Justice’s Bench since the Supreme Court was inactive seized of the contented of the Karur stampede calamity and had transferred the probe to the CBI lone by mode of an interim order.
Further, a writ petition filed by BJP councillor Uma Anandan seeking a CBI probe into the Karur stampede calamity has besides been listed for proceeding earlier the archetypal Division Bench connected Monday (October 27, 2025). Though she had filed the petition astatine the main spot successful Chennai during the Dussehra abrogation connected September 30, it got numbered lone connected October 8 and was not listed for proceeding since then.
Since her supplication had go infructuous successful presumption of the Supreme Court bid and she was a 3rd enactment to the tragedy, the Registry had listed her lawsuit nether the caption ‘For Maintainability’ connected Monday (October 27, 2025).
