Chennai: The Madras High Court on Monday directed the Tamil Nadu Government to prepare within 10 days a Draft Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for holding political meetings and rallies to avoid tragedies like the recent stampede in Karur at actor-politician Vijay’s rally in which 41 persons died. The actor, incidentally, facilitated the travel of the families of the victims from Karur to Chennai and met them at a luxury convention hall in the tourist town of Mamallapuram to offer condolences a month after the stampede.

A Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G Arul Murugan directed the Additonal Advocate General J Ravindran to place the Draft SOP before the court by November 11. If the State does not comply with this, the court said it would be constrained to p

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