On September 27, 2025, a stampede unfolded at a rally organised by actor Vijay's TVK party in Veluswamypuram, Karur district, when the actor was campaigning, and 41 people ended up dead, shocking the entire nation. 

Following the event, an FIR was filed against several TVK functionaries excluding Vijay,  under charges like culpable homicide not amounting to murder, failing to ensure safety, misrepresenting expected crowd size, improper venue arrangements among other charges. 

TVK's general secretary N Anand alias Bussy Anand had approached the High Court for anticipatory bail for him, and TVK's  Joint General Secretary CTR Nirmal Kumar, in this case. On October 3, 2025, Friday, Justice N Jothiraman of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed the bail petitions, even though Senior counsel V. Raghavachari argued stating that the petitioners had no intention to kill their own cadres, and that an accident cannot be termed as culpable homicide.

The State counsel opposing the bail had argued that the Karur stampede case investigation has only just begun and said, "Their anticipatory bail is another political strategy. These were totally reckless and heartless people,".

It is worth mentioning here that TVK's request for a CBI probe into the Karur stampede was separately denied in another court hearing on October 3, 2025. The court noted that the Tamil Nadu Police's probe into the Karur tragedy is at an initial stage, and the petitioners seeking the CBI probe were not the victims of the stampede. 

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Madras HC Justice N. Senthilkumar also questioned,

- Why no hit & run case against #TVK campaign bus?
- Why no FIR against party leader #Vijay?
- Tamil Nadu state govt, as they appeared to be showing leniency towards #Karur rally organizers
- "If the TN police will not fix… pic.twitter.com/t6bBEtkuZG

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