Overview

• Judicial Magistrate I S. P. Bharat Kumar declined to extend the remand of V. P. Mathiyazhagan and C. Pounraj, leading to their release from custody in Tiruchi.
• The Assistant Public Prosecutor sought more time until a competent CBI court took up the matter, while the defence argued the SIT lost authority after the transfer.
• The Supreme Court ordered the investigation shifted from a state SIT to the Central Bureau of Investigation earlier this week.
• In a related case, District Judge K. H. Elavazhagan rejected bail for Salem district secretary Venkatesan over an alleged assault on a private ambulance driver during the stampede.
• The FIR on the September 27 Karur rally, where 41 people died, names TVK leaders Bussy Anand, C. T. R. Nirmal Kumar and Mathiyazhagan as prime suspects under BNS and TNPPDL provisions, citing crowd-control failures including volunteers on tin sheds and trees.