Overview

• The state cabinet has initiated disciplinary proceedings against former SV Dairy Farm director Harinath Reddy and DSP A.V. Ramana Kumar for dereliction of duty.
• The judicial commission led by Justice Satyanarayana Murthy found that failures in crowd control protocols at Padmavathi Park and delayed ambulance response triggered the January 8 stampede that killed six pilgrims.
• Senior police and Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams vigilance officers received clean chits, with the inquiry identifying the opening of a gate at a holding area as the immediate cause of the crowd surge.
• YSRCP leader B. Karunakar Reddy labeled the report 'predetermined' and accused it of scapegoating junior officials while sparing senior TTD and police personnel.
• The opposition party has urged the central government to authorise a CBI investigation into the Vaikunta Ekadasi tragedy, rejecting the state-level findings as incomplete and biased.