Overview

• The court suspended the Madras High Court-appointed SIT and a state inquiry, directing Tamil Nadu authorities to hand over all FIRs, documents and digital evidence to the CBI.
• A three-member supervisory committee led by retired Justice Ajay Rastogi will include two senior IPS officers not native to Tamil Nadu and will receive monthly progress reports from the CBI.
• Justices JK Maheshwari and NV Anjaria criticised the High Court’s jurisdictional handling and adverse observations, calling for a probe free of doubt given the case’s impact on fundamental rights.
• The bench flagged questions about midnight postmortems and early cremations and said claims that some petitioners disowned filings will be examined without derailing the interim transfer.
• Investigators will scrutinise severe crowd-management failures at the September 27 rally, with FIRs against TVK organisers for culpable homicide and endangering life remaining in effect.