New Delhi: A BJP leader from Tamil Nadu has moved the Supreme Court, seeking a CBI probe into the September 27 stampede at Karur during a political rally of actor and TVK founder Vijay that killed 41 people and injured more than 60.

The plea, filed by G S Mani, an apex court lawyer and the vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) state legal cell, has also sought a stay on the Tamil Nadu Police’s probe into the Karur incident.

The top court has already listed other related pleas for a hearing on October 10.

In his plea filed through Advocate-on-Record R Sathish, Mani has urged the court to transfer the probe from the Tamil Nadu Police to either the CBI or an independent Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by a current or former Supreme Court judge.

“The petitioner who

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