Overview

• Justice Aruna Jagadeesan’s single-member commission began work on Monday, visiting the Karur site and hospital two days after the deadly crush.
• Karur police expanded an FIR to name senior TVK office-bearers under BNS provisions including culpable homicide and endangering life, while Vijay was not named.
• TVK moved the Madras High Court’s Madurai bench seeking a CBI or independent investigation, with a hearing expected today and separate pleas urging curbs on further rallies.
• Officials and witnesses pointed to overcrowding far beyond permitted levels, a delayed arrival, poor access to water and food, and a brief power disruption as factors that fueled panic.
• Relief includes Rs 20 lakh per bereaved family and Rs 2 lakh for the injured from Vijay, Rs 10 lakh and Rs 1 lakh from the Tamil Nadu government, and Rs 2 lakh and Rs 50,000 from the PMNRF, as more than 60 injured remain under treatment.