Actor Vijay's Conspiracy Charge At DMK Amid Stampede Row, And A CBI Demand | Read

Actor-politician Vijay's party TVK has alleged a DMK conspiracy behind the stampede at yesterday's rally in Karur that left 40 people dead and nearly 100 injured. TVK's lawyer, Arivazhagan, has told NDTV that the party has approached the Madras High Court with a petition that urges the court to set up a Special Investigation Team or to transfer the case to the central agency CBI. Arivazhagan trashed the state government's contentions that safety guidelines were violated at the Karur rally.

Arivazhagan, the state coordinator of TVK's legal wing, said they will raise the matter before the Madurai bench of the high court tomorrow. "There was a conspiracy, a criminal conspiracy in the incident at Karur, so we requested the honorable high court to investigate the matter independently, not by a state agency," he told NDTV. "The court has to constitute a special investigation team, or they have to transfer the case from Tamil Nadu police to CBI," he said.