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Even as the Supreme Court ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the Karur stampede, a controversy has erupted with two people, whose relatives died in the stampede, alleging that they did not file the petition.

The Supreme Court is a batch of petitions related to the September 27 stampede during actor-politician Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) rally in Karur, which 41 people dead and several injured.

Among them was one filed by TVK general secretary (election strategy) Aadhav Arjuna, who sought to quash the Madras High Court’s that set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the incident.

Two other petitions, demanding a CBI inquiry, were filed by P Panneerselvam from Alamarathupatti, who lost

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