Two Dalit families from the Arundhathiyar community in Tamil Nadu’s Karur district, who lost loved ones in the stampede during actor Vijay’s political rally in Karur last month, say petitions under their name in the Supreme Court seeking a CBI probe into the incident were filed without their knowledge.

Both say they were first made aware of this through television, news reports and inquiries from local authorities.

“I have been going through deep pain; I don’t know what to say,” P Selvaraj, a 50-year-old tractor driver and farm labourer from Emur Puthur village near Karur, told The Indian Express . “I am illiterate. I don’t know anything about cases or the court. When I learned about a petition filed in my name in the Supreme Court without my knowledge, I was devastated. It is unfortun

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