Overview

• Delivering an interim order, a bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and N.V. Anjaria handed the investigation to the CBI and directed monthly progress reports to a supervisory committee.
• Justice Ajay Rastogi will select two senior IPS officers who are not natives of Tamil Nadu to join the panel monitoring the probe.
• The court castigated the Madras High Court for constituting an all–state police SIT and for taking up the matter at its Chennai bench despite Karur falling under the Madurai bench’s jurisdiction.
• The bench noted claims that some petitions seeking a CBI probe were filed without the petitioners’ knowledge and said it will examine the issue while allowing the Tamil Nadu government time to file a counter-affidavit.
• Authorities have recorded 41 deaths and dozens of injuries; police cite severe overcrowding beyond permitted numbers, inadequate arrangements, and a delayed arrival by Vijay, with an FIR naming TVK leaders under culpable homicide and endangering life provisions.