DMK Councillor Arrested After Viral Karur Remark

Overview

• Puzhal police arrested Vellore DMK councillor Teeta Saravanan after a video of him saying a comment that referenced the 27 September 2025 Karur stampede circulated widely on Wednesday.
• Police registered an FIR under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita that cover provocation, public mischief and criminal intimidation and traced Saravanan to the home of DMK functionary ACK Premkumar, who was also taken into custody.
• The clip surfaced as former DMK education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi was being moved to Puzhal Central Prison following his arrest in an alleged Rs 100-crore private schools corruption case, a confrontation during which DMK supporters had gathered outside the jail on Monday night.
• Separate police cases were filed against other DMK leaders and workers for protests and obstruction around Mahesh’s arrest, and ruling TVK figures seized the councillor’s remark to revive their allegation that the Karur stampede was intentionally planned.
• The Karur tragedy that killed 41 people in September 2025 remains under a CBI probe ordered by the Supreme Court, and the new arrests are likely to deepen political polarization, increase legal scrutiny of both the stampede inquiry and the corruption case, and prolong tensions for victims’ families and local communities.