Hema Malini leads NDA delegation to Karur, meets bereaved families and injured victims

BJP Lok Sabha MP Thakur told one of the families of the victims and the injured that they are “Proposing a to have a sitting Supreme Court judge to have a free and fair probe so that whoever is the culprit-whether it is the organiser or the state government-anyone behind this- will not be let scott free.” Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai translated the Tamil spoken by families and English spoken by the delegation to each other. In another spot, Annamalai told the delegation that the injured are alleging that miscreants randomly hurt people using a knife.

The NDA’s probe comes after the DMK government tasked retired justice Aruna Jagadeesan to investigate what had caused the stampede hours after the incident on September 27 night. Jagadeesan began her probe the next morning while Vijay’s party Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK) has filed a plea in the Madurai bench of the Madras high court seeking a CBI probe alleging political conspiracy.

Surya said that there are doubts over whether the retired judge constituted by the ruling DMK government would function without any bias.