The Madras High Court is all set to hear, on Monday (October 27, 2025), a batch of cases related to actor C. Joseph Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), the Karur stampede tragedy that claimed 41 lives during his campaign on September 27 and the need to formulate guidelines/Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for all kinds of political campaigns in the future.
Karur stampede: a package on the tragedy at Vijay’s TVK rally in Tamil Nadu
The first Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan is slated to hear all those cases and the first among them would be the second anticipatory bail petition filed by TVK general secretary ‘Bussy’ Anand, alias N. Anand, in a culpable homicide case booked against him by the Karur Town police pursuant to the death of 41 people.
Justice M. Jothiraman had dismissed his first anticipatory bail plea during the Dussehra vacation sitting in the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on October 3. About 10 days thereafter, he had filed a second advance bail plea in the Madurai Bench on October 14 by including the Karur Town police as the respondent, though the Supreme Court had transferred the case to the CBI on October 13.
