Meet Ajay Rastogi: The former SC Judge overseeing the Karur stampede investigation
New Delhi: In a significant development, the Supreme Court has ordered the transfer of the investigation into the tragic Karur stampede to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Going a step further, the court has also appointed a monitoring committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge, Ajay Rastogi, to oversee the federal agency’s probe into the incident that claimed multiple lives during a political rally.
The order comes after the parents of a deceased boy and other petitioners argued before the court that they had no faith in the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed........





















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