CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government should prepare a standard operating procedure (SOP) on holding public meetings within 10 days, the Madras High Court directed on Monday.

The first bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G Arul Murugan was hearing a batch of petitions on the matter after the Karur TVK rally stampede in which 41 people were killed.

According to a Thanthi TV report, the government advocate, additional advocate general J Ravindran, said the authorities would not consider any applications seeking permission to hold public events till the SOP was ready. To this, the bench wondered if that would have a bearing on the democratic rights of political parties.

The bench then said the government should not stop considering applications seeking permission fo

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