SIT gets two-day custody of TVK’s district secretary

The Judicial Magistrate-1 present connected Thursday granted the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the Karur stampede case, two-day custody of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam’s Karur West territory caput V.P. Mathiyazhagan.

The SIT, constituted by the Madras High Court to analyse the case, had sought 5 days’ custody of Mathiyazhagan, 1 of the accused successful the lawsuit related to the stampede that claimed 41 lives connected September 27. However, S.P. Bharath Kumar, the Judicial Magistrate who heard the plea, allowed two-day custody of Mathiyazhgan, and ordered the SIT to nutrient him earlier the tribunal connected Saturday.

Accused successful case

TVK wide caput N. Anand, alias ‘Bussy’ Anand; associated caput C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar; and Karur cardinal municipality caput M.C. Pounraj were besides named arsenic accused successful the case. While the constabulary arrested Mathiyazhagan and Pounraj, Anand and Nirmal Kumar are yet to beryllium arrested.