N. Anand aka ‘Bussy’ Anand. File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court on Friday (October 3, 2025) rejected foreshadowing proposals for bail submitted by the Secretary -General of TVK N. Anand, aka ‘Bussy’ Anand and a common Secretary of CTR Nirmal Kumar. Police Karur arrested arrests in connection with StamPede during a meeting in Velusamypuram, in which 41 people died.
Justice M. Jothiraman rejected the requests, with regard to the seriousness of the incident, and that the spacecraft was in the preliminary phase and the injuries were still in the hospital.
She told the facts in the company and “disrupted the court’s conscience”, the judge said. The role of the organizers of the event and the police is essential. In this case, there is a death in which 41 lives have been lost and many of them were injured, the court said.
The case of prosecution is that the district secretary of Karur West VP Mathiyazhagan searched for permission to carry out a TVK rally between 15:00 and 22:00 with the expected crowd of 10,000 people. However, approximately 25,000 people gathered at the event.
TVK leader Vijay arrived late on the roadshow, which made the crowd enlarged. The tragedy occurred as a result of a heavy crowd, the prosecution said.
The petitioners claimed that the accusation was false, unfounded and aimed to engage them for political reasons. The petitioners claimed that the police claimed that they did not lead to a role in the incident, although the police did not provide sufficient protection, even though it had previous knowledge of the crowd. The petitioners stated that they and other TVK members took steps to regulate the crowd.
The leaders’ heads for the petitioners have submitted that the permit was granted to carry out an event from 15:00 to 22:00, when the party leader could start the campaign at any time in the allowed slot. The state was responsible for the deployment of adequate police staff for protection. The appropriate police staff was not deployed and the police caused a stir from the police commotion. The petitioners were not responsible for the incident, the higher advisor said.
The state said the organizers could not regulate their cadre. “It was the police’s obligation to only grant protection and sufficient police were deployed. However, the organizers did not provide people with drinking water and sanitary facilities. Many people died due to dehydration and organizers after the incident,” he said.
Published – 3 October 2025 23:56
