{"id":32012,"date":"2026-07-07T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/how-can-a-court-regulate-what-a-cm-can-say-sc-dismisses-dmk-plea-on-karur-stampede-case-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:32:52","slug":"how-can-a-court-regulate-what-a-cm-can-say-sc-dismisses-dmk-plea-on-karur-stampede-case-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/how-can-a-court-regulate-what-a-cm-can-say-sc-dismisses-dmk-plea-on-karur-stampede-case-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;How can a court regulate what a CM can say?&#8217; SC dismisses DMK plea on Karur stampede case | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132232352,imgsize-1762410,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/karur-stampede.jpg\" alt=\"'How can a court regulate what a CM can say?' SC dismisses DMK plea on Karur stampede case\" title=\"The Karur stampede occurred during a political event in September last year, killing 41 people and injuring several others.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"The Karur stampede occurred during a political event in September last year, killing 41 people and injuring several others.\">The Karur stampede occurred during a political event in September last year, killing 41 people and injuring several others.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea filed by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) seeking to restrain Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) leaders, including Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay and minister Aadhav Arjuna, from making public statements on the Karur stampede case.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>While rejecting the petition, the court remarked that &#8220;judicial forum can not be used as political platform.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>How can a court regulate on what a chief minister should talk or not, the court observed.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The court also pulled up the DMK for questioning the chief minister&#8217;s proposed visit to the families of those killed in the Karur stampede.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>The matter had been mentioned for urgent hearing on Monday before a bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Sheel Nagu by senior advocate Huzefa Ahmadi, appearing for DMK secretary R S Bharati. <!-- -->Accepting the request, the bench had agreed to hear the plea on Tuesday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>The DMK had argued that chief minister Vijay&#8217;s scheduled visit to the victims&#8217; families on July 10 could influence witnesses in the ongoing investigation. The petition also alleged that Vijay distributed Rs 20 lakh each to the families of those killed and Rs 2 lakh each to those injured in October 2025 while criminal proceedings were pending.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>The application further objected to a public statement allegedly made on July 2, 2026, by minister Aadhav Arjuna, who is also an accused in the case.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>The Karur stampede occurred during a rally in September last year, killing 41 people and injuring several others.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/how-can-a-court-regulate-what-a-cm-can-say-sc-dismisses-dmk-plea-on-karur-stampede-case\/articleshow\/132232356.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karur stampede occurred during a political event in September last year, killing 41 people and injuring several others. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea filed by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) seeking to restrain Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) leaders, including Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay and minister Aadhav [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}