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The Judicial Magistrate I tribunal present connected Wednesday refused to widen the judicial custody of V.P. Mathiyazhagan, Karur (west) territory secretary, and C. Pounraj, Karur cardinal municipality secretary, who were arrested successful transportation with the Karur stampede lawsuit that claimed 41 lives.
Upon the extremity of the play of judicial custody, Mr.Mathiyazhagan and Mr.Pounraj were brought from the Tiruchi Central Prison and produced earlier the Judicial Magistrate, S.P. Bharat Kumar.
Citing the Supreme Court bid that transferred the Karur stampede lawsuit to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), an Assistant Public Prosecutor made a plea earlier the Magistrate to widen the remand of some until the competent CBI tribunal heard the matter.
Opposing the plea, advocator D. Arasu, representing the TVK leaders, said that the Supreme Court had ordered the transportation of Karur stampede lawsuit to CBI connected Monday itself. The Special Investigation Team, which was investigating the lawsuit until Monday, could nary longer grip the case. Hence, the judicial custody could not beryllium extended.
After proceeding the arguments from some sides Mr. Bharat Kumar refused to widen the judicial custody and some of them were subsequently released.
Meanwhile, the District Sessions Court dismissed the bail plea of Venkatesan, 40, territory caput of Salem, who was arrested successful transportation with a lawsuit registered by the Karur municipality constabulary against a radical of TVK cadre for allegedly assaulting a backstage ambulance operator during the stampede astatine histrion Vijay’s rally successful Karur connected September 27.
N. Senthilkumar, Public Prosecutor, submitted that Venkatesan was yet to beryllium interrogated successful item successful the case. The constabulary had planned to instrumentality him successful their custody. Hence, the bail plea of him should not beryllium entertained. District Judge K.H. Elavazhagan dismissed Venkatesan’s bail petition.
