The Supreme Court on Friday refused to modify its earlier order suspending the Tamil Nadu government’s one-man enquiry commission and the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to probe the Karur stampede that claimed 41 lives, stressing that the investigation must be “fair and impartial.”

A Bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi declined to entertain the State’s plea seeking permission for the commission to function alongside the CBI probe. “We want everything to be fair and impartial,” the Bench told senior advocate P. Wilson, appearing for the Tamil Nadu government.

The Court also took a critical view of a report submitted by the Registrar General of the Madras High Court, observing, “There is something wrong going on in the High Court. This is not a right thing tha

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