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The archetypal accusation study booked by the Karur Town constabulary connected the stampede during the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) person Vijay’s gathering successful Karur connected Saturday (September 27, 2025) has charged that the enactment organisers had deliberately planned and delayed the accomplishment of Vijay astatine the town.
People who waited successful ample numbers for respective hours without h2o and aesculapian assistance experienced fatigue due to the fact that of the vigor and crowding, which consequently led to a stampede resulting successful aggregate deaths, the FIR said.
The FIR was registered connected a suo motu ailment by the Inspector of Karur Town constabulary presumption G. Manivannan connected Saturday nighttime nether 4 sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and nether the Tamil Nadu Public Property (Prevention of Damage and Loss) Act. It named the TVK authorities wide caput ‘Bussy’ Anand, party’s authorities associated caput C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar and the party’s territory caput Mathiazhagan arsenic accused.
As per the FIR, astir 500 constabulary unit and location guards were deployed for bandobust and postulation regularisation successful Karur municipality and its surroundings for Vijay’s run astatine Velusamypuram. Public and enactment cadre began to assemble successful ample numbers from 10 a.m. pursuing reports that Vijay would get astatine Karur astatine 12 noon.
The FIR further said contempt the constabulary having fixed support for Vijay’s gathering from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., the organisers deliberately planned and delayed the accomplishment of Vijay astatine Karur by 4 hours, with the volition of exhibiting their governmental strength. The immense gathering of radical who waited for respective hours experienced fatigue.
It said the wide nationalist and enactment supporters began to assemble from 10 a.m. astatine Velusamypuram main road, Kovai road, Muniyappan Koil junction, Thirukampuliyur roundtana and the Madurai-Salem bypass road. The fig of radical who had gathered for the gathering was implicit 25,000 though Mr. Mathiazhagan had mentioned successful the petition that 10,000 cadre would come.
The FIR stated that Vijay entered Karur territory done the borderline of Velayuthampalayam and Thavitupalayam at astir 4.45 p.m. It alleged that helium deliberately delayed and indulged successful a roadshow without permission, causing hindrance to nationalist and vehicular movements, thereby violating the conditions astatine respective places to scope Muniappan koil junction astir 6 p.m. Vijay’s conveyance was taken connected the incorrect broadside of the carriageway (on the close side) to scope Velusamypuram junction and stopped successful the midst of a ample gathering astatine 7 p.m.
The FIR said the Inspector and the Deputy Superintendent of Police cautioned Mr. Anand, Mr. Nirmal Kumar and Mr. Mathiazhagan galore times, and advised them that specified a ample gathering, beyond the power of constabulary unit deployed for bandobust, with unnecessary expectations would make an antithetic concern which could pb to congestion, shortness of breath, wounded and nonaccomplishment of life.
However, they refused to listen, it claimed. Mr. Mathiazhagan and different functionaries did not modulate the assemblage properly, and radical climbed onto sloped tin roofs enactment up atop shops and adjacent trees. Due to this, the tin sheds and histrion branches broke and the cadre seated connected them fell connected those standing, starring to shortness of breath, and thereby creating an bonzer situation, it further said.
