MADURAI: Alleging that the stampede incident in Karur during Vijay’s TVK rally was engineered by the police and ruling DMK party members, especially former Minister V Senthil Balaji, TVK General Secretary of Election Campaign Management Aadhav Arjuna moved the Madras High Court seeking a CBI probe into the stampede incident.In his petition, he stated that permissions were repeatedly denied in the places of the party’s choice. Permission was granted in areas that would not accommodate even a decent crowd. Electricity connections were disrupted during the rallies, and adequate police personnel were not deployed. This pattern occurred during TVK rallies in Namakkal, Trichy, and Nagapattinam.He stated that the stampede in Karur was also engineered by the police and ruling party members. He mentioned that even before Vijay started his speech, the electricity connection was disrupted, which eventually led to people jamming towards the generator used for backup. He claimed that some anti-social elements who infiltrated the rally threw slippers and stones not only at their leader but also at the public.
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The repeated pattern of disconnection of electricity, allotting much-confined spaces by govt officials for the rally, suspicious preparedness, hospitals made ready before victims arrived, postmortems conducted at midnight, and ministers reaching the hospital unusually fast show that the ruling DMK party is determined to sabotage the rally at any cost. Permitting the persons who fixed the spot for the rally to find out the cause of the untoward incident in the rally is certainly a conflict of interest. Unless the CBI takes up the probe, there is no possibility of bringing the truth to light, he said.Hence, Aadhav Arjuna moved the court seeking a direction to transfer the investigation in the case registered pertaining to the death of innocent people to the CBI. He also sought to restrain the officials from preventing or obstructing TVK chief Vijay and himself from visiting Karur to meet the family members of the victims.Sources said that the high court registry refused to accept petition.
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