Madras High Court to listen to on October 27 all instances associated to Karur stampede

The Madras High Court is all set to listen to, on Monday (October 27, 2025), a batch of instances associated to actor C. Joseph Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), the Karur stampede tragedy that claimed 41 lives throughout his marketing campaign on September 27 and the necessity to formulate tips/Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for every kind of political campaigns sooner or later.

The first Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan is slated to listen to all these instances and the primary amongst them could be the second anticipatory bail petition filed by TVK normal secretary ‘Bussy’ Anand, alias N. Anand, in a culpable murder case booked towards him by the Karur Town police pursuant to the dying of 41 folks.

Justice M. Jothiraman had dismissed his first anticipatory bail plea through the Dussehra trip sitting within the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on October 3. About 10 days thereafter, he had filed a second advance bail plea within the Madurai Bench on October 14 by together with the Karur Town police because the respondent, although the Supreme Court had transferred the case to the CBI on October 13.

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His second petition has now been transferred to the principal seat of the High Court and listed underneath the caption ‘For Withdrawal’ earlier than the Chief Justice’s Bench. Another writ petition filed within the Madurai Bench by party-in-person Ok. Rajan, looking for disciplinary motion towards Karur Collector and Superintendent of Police, has additionally been transferred to Chennai and listed earlier than the primary Division Bench.

Apart from these two instances, a petition filed by TVK on the principal seat in Chennai on September 16, complaining about “onerous” circumstances imposed by the police for its political campaigns, has additionally been listed earlier than the Chief Justice’s Bench. This petition was filed earlier than the Karur tragedy and proper then, Justice N. Sathish Kumar had referred to as upon the State Government to border tips for political campaigns.

However, because the Supreme Court felt that the problem of framing tips/SOP have to be handled solely by a Division Bench and never a single choose, it had now been listed earlier than the Chief Justice’s Bench together with a number of different particular person writ petitions filed within the Madurai Bench insisting that drone surveillance, fireplace security precautions, provision of ingesting water and medical services have to be obligatory throughout political campaigns.

Aadhav Arjuna’s petition

The Chief Justice’s Bench would even be listening to on Monday (October 27, 2025) a petition filed by TVK normal secretary (election marketing campaign administration) Aadhav Arjuna for quashing a First Information Report (FIR) registered towards him pursuant to his allegedly inflammatory tweet insinuating a revolt towards the Tamil Nadu Government by the children and Gen Z because it had occurred in Sri Lanka and Nepal.

Though the FIR quash petition would usually get listed solely earlier than a single Judge holding the felony portfolio, the Registry had listed this petition too earlier than the Chief Justice’s Bench because the Supreme Court was nonetheless seized of the problem of the Karur stampede tragedy and had transferred the investigation to the CBI solely by means of an interim order.

Further, a writ petition filed by BJP councillor Uma Anandan looking for a CBI probe into the Karur stampede tragedy has additionally been listed for listening to earlier than the primary Division Bench on Monday (October 27, 2025). Though she had filed the petition on the principal seat in Chennai through the Dussehra trip on September 30, it received numbered solely on October 8 and was not listed for listening to since then.

Since her prayer had grow to be infructuous in view of the Supreme Court order and he or she was a 3rd get together to the tragedy, the Registry had listed her case underneath the caption ‘For Maintainability’ on Monday (October 27, 2025).