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Anirudh Ravichander. File | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj
Justice N. Anand Venkatesh ordered that the circumstances imposed by the Mamallapuram Deputy Superintendent of Police, whereas granting permission for the live performance, have to be adhered to scrupulously. The interim order was handed on a writ petition filed by Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) MLA ‘Panaiyur’ Babu alias M. Babu, representing the Cheyyur Assembly constituency.
The choose additionally determined to maintain the writ petition and directed the Registy to record it once more on August 28 to seek out out whether or not the live performance was organised in an orderly method with out giving room for a fiasco, such because the one which had occurred throughout A.R. Rahman’s Marakuma Nenjam live performance at Panaiyur on ECR in September 2023 on account of overcrowding and mismanagement.
The choice was taken after listening to the arguments superior by the petitioner’s counsel R. Thrumoorthy, Additonal Public Prosecutor A. Damodaran, and senior counsel P.V. Balasubramanian, representing Primark Productions Private Limited and Brand Avatar, the organisers of the live performance. The APP instructed the court docket that the police had imposed vital circumstances for the sleek conduct of the occasion.
However, submitting an in depth affidavit in help of his writ petition, the MLA stated he had obtained a number of representations from native residents, expressing concern over the conduct of the live performance of their locality with out putting in satisfactory security in addition to different infrastructural necessities, particularly when as many as 30,000 folks have been anticipated to take part in it.
“I inspected the venue simply two days earlier than the occasion and to my shock, no seen security preparations had been put in place. There aren’t any non permanent restrooms or sanitation services, and there’s no signal of potable water stations or medical assist cubicles,” the MLA stated. He clarified that his concern was to not stall the occasion however solely to make sure that it was carried out with vital precautions in place.
The MLA additionally claimed that fireplace security preparations have been manifestly absent, and no evacuation plan had been formulated. “The strategy highway to the live performance venue is a slim 30-feet-wide rural highway, which is wholly insufficient to deal with the vehicular visitors. It may develop into a choke level,” he feared. He highlighted that the ECR stretch from Mamallapuram to Marakkanam was at present being transformed from two to 4 lanes.
“These issues aren’t merely speculative. Recent incidents have confirmed how harmful an ill-planned mass occasion can develop into. In explicit, I draw your consideration to the A.R. Rahman’s Marakkuma Nenjam live performance fiasco that occurred on ECR in September 2023. That occasion became a nightmare on account of overcrowding and mismanagement,” the MLA stated.
He had sought a path to the Chengalpattu Collector to forestall the organisers from conducting Mr. Ravichander’s live performance at Seekinamkuppam on Saturday, or at the least postpone the occasion till security preparations have been put in place.
Published – August 22, 2025 12:53 pm IST
