Overview

• The bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and N.V. Anjaria issued an interim order moving the investigation to the CBI and directed Tamil Nadu Police and the state SIT to hand over all FIRs, documents and digital evidence.
• The Supreme Court constituted a three-member supervisory committee headed by retired Justice Ajay Rastogi, with two senior IPS officers who are not natives of Tamil Nadu, to monitor the probe and receive monthly progress reports.
• In sharp criticism of procedure, the Court questioned the Madras High Court’s Chennai bench for taking up the matter despite the Madurai bench’s seisin and for constituting a police-only SIT in a petition originally about rally SOPs.
• The Court noted claims that two individuals named as petitioners for a CBI probe disowned those filings and said it will examine the issue, clarifying that its directions are interim.
• The September 27 crowd crush at a TVK rally in Karur killed 41 and injured dozens, with officials citing attendance nearly triple the permitted 10,000 and inadequate crowd control and logistics as contributing factors.