Two top leaders of actor-politician Vijay’s TVK, including his close aide N Anand, have been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder after a stampede at a rally in Karur yesterday left 39 people dead and nearly 100 injured.
N Anand, TVK’s general secretary and a former MLA from Puducherry, is popularly known as Bussy Anand because he represented the Bussy seat in the Puducherry Assembly. He is effectively the Number 2 in the party.
Besides Mr Anand, TVK joint general secretary CT Nirmal Kumar, the party’s Karur West district secretary Mathiyazhagan and 3 others have been named in the police case.
The accused have been charged under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections relating to culpable homicide not amounting to murder, acts of rash/negligent conduct endangering human life and disobedience to an order issued by a public servant. They have also been charged under the Tamil Nadu Public Property (Prevention of Damage and Loss) Act.