NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday questioned the manner in which a single judge of the Madras High Court - principal bench in Chennai - passed an order for a probe by an SIT into Karur stampede, when the petition it was responding to was for framing a standard operating protocol for political rallies. There is also fallacy in the order as the division bench of the high court at Madurai was examining the issue, it said. A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and N V Anjaria asked why the principal bench entertained the petition related to the incident in Karur which falls within the jurisdiction of the Madurai bench. The court highlighted the procedural fault before going ahead with the hearing on a batch of petitions, including one filed by Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), on the stam

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