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CBI Deputy Inspector-General of Police Atul Kumar Thakur on Monday visited Velusamypuram on the Karur-Erode Highway, wherever 41 radical were killed successful a stampede during a rally addressed by Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam president Vijay on September 27.
Mr. Thakur took banal of the advancement of the probe being carried retired by the cardinal bureau connected the orders of the Supreme Court.
Accompanied by CBI officials who person been camping in Karur for implicit 5 weeks since the lawsuit was transferred to the bureau from a Madras High Court-constituted Special Investigation Team, Mr. Thakur visited the country of stampede and studied the area. He held spot consultations with the officials. He examined the spot wherever Mr. Vijay addressed the gathering from atop his run conveyance and spots wherever ambulances picked up bodies oregon injured persons and the inheritance of these places.
Earlier, Mr. Thakur visited the Circuit House in Karur, which is being utilized arsenic a impermanent bureau by the CBI team, and held discussions with the officials. Officials explained to him the advancement of the investigation.
Mr. Thakur’s exercise assumes value successful the aftermath of the projected sojourn of the Supreme Court-appointed committee overseeing the probe. The committee, led by retired Supreme Court judge Ajay Rastogi, volition sojourn the country of stampede connected Tuesday. The three-member committee volition walk astir 3 days in Karur to measure the advancement of the case.
The CBI has truthful acold conducted inquiries with a fig of persons. TVK general caput N. Anand alias ‘Bussy’ Anand and party Karur West territory secretary V.P. Mathiyazhagan, who were cited arsenic accused, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, and an inspector of constabulary in Karur were among those who were questioned. Several policemen, who were connected work astatine the gathering spot and the adjacent places, and the owners and drivers of ambulances were besides questioned. It has conducted inquiries with a fig of injured persons and the relatives of those killed successful the stampede.
In a statement, Karur Collector M. Thangavel said the Ajay Rastogi committee would visit Karur on Tuesday. Those who were affected by the stampede, members of the public, and representatives of associations could conscionable the committee members astatine the Circuit House adjacent the Collectorate from 10.30 a.m. and contiguous petitions.
