Karur stampede: At the least 40 folks, together with 17 girls and 10 kids, died in a stampede that broke out throughout Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief and actor Vijay’s rally in Tamil Nadu’s Karur on September 27.
The Madras Excessive Court docket will hear at the moment the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam’s (TVK) plea looking for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) to research the September 27 stampede within the actor-politician Vijay’s political rally that left 40 useless and over 60 injured.
Advocates led by S Arivazhagan on Sunday made a point out earlier than Justice M Dhandapani. The decide requested the advocates to file a petition earlier than the Madurai Bench of the Madras Excessive Court docket and it is going to be taken up for listening to on Monday at 2.
Karur stampede sufferer strikes HC in opposition to TVK
In the meantime, a person injured within the stampede additionally moved the Madras Excessive Court docket with a plea to restrain Tamil Nadu Police from granting permission to conduct any additional public rallies by Vijay and TVK till accountability is mounted and security protocols are ensured. The sufferer pleaded with the Excessive Court docket for a course to the DGP from granting permission to conduct any additional public conferences, rallies or political gatherings by TVK and its chief Vijay until such time.
In his petition, Senthilkannan submitted that the tragedy was not a mere accident however the direct results of reckless planning, gross mismanagement, and full disregard for the protection of the general public.
He mentioned the appropriate to life assured underneath Article 21 of the Structure of India was sacrosanct and can’t be endangered by the unregulated conduct of political rallies. Whereas Article 19(1)(b) confers the appropriate to assemble, the Structure itself permits affordable restrictions within the curiosity of public order, morality, and security.
The Karur incident was a stark reminder that the unregulated train of this proper can have catastrophic penalties, leading to lack of life and severe accidents, he submitted.
The State has a constructive obligation to guard residents from such risks by implementing ample preventive measures and by refusing permissions for such rallies the place there was a transparent danger to life and public order.
Vijay obtained bomb menace
Vijay on Sunday obtained a bomb, following which safety was beefed up at his residence in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The event comes a day after a lethal stampede at his rally in Karur that claimed the lives of 40 folks — 10 kids, 17 girls and 13 males.
Following the incident, the actor-turned-politician mentioned his coronary heart was ‘shattered’ by the incident. In an X (beforehand Twitter) put up, the 51-year-old mentioned paid homage to those that misplaced their lives and likewise prayed for the fast restoration of the injured. “My coronary heart is shattered; I’m writhing in insufferable, indescribable ache and sorrow that phrases can not specific,” he posted.
Vijay has additionally introduced that he’ll present Rs 20 lakh to the kin of those that misplaced their lives within the stampede. Moreover, Rs 2 lakh every would even be given to the injured, he mentioned.
(With PTI inputs)
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