Puzhal police arrested Vellore DMK councillor Teeta Saravanan in Villupuram on October 28 over a remark against Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay that referred to the 2025 Karur crowd crush, made outside Puzhal prison during a protest after Anbil Mahesh’s arrest. A DMK youth wing functionary was arrested for sheltering him.
Puzhal police arrested Vellore DMK councillor Teeta Saravanan in Villupuram on October 28 over a remark against Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay that referred to the 2025 Karur crowd crush, made outside Puzhal prison during a protest after Anbil Mahesh’s arrest. A DMK youth wing functionary was arrested for sheltering him.
The Puzhal police arrested Teeta Saravanan, DMK councillor of Ward 12 in the Vellore Corporation, in Villupuram on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, over a remark against Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay that invoked the Karur tragedy.
After former minister Anbil Mahesh was brought to Puzhal Central Prison on the night of October 26, DMK supporters gathered outside and blocked the police vehicle. A video that circulated on October 27 showed Saravanan saying, in Tamil, words to the effect of: “If we had finished him off at Karur that day, this would not have happened today.” The remark was widely condemned.
Law Minister C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar said the remark showed that something had been planned at Karur: “This means that they had planned something in Karur and now the truth has come out in the open.” TVK has long questioned how the tragedy happened. The remark itself, however, is not evidence of how the crowd crush happened — that is for the investigation to establish.
On September 27, 2025, a crowd crush at a TVK campaign meeting addressed by Vijay at Velusamypuram, on the outskirts of Karur, claimed 41 lives and injured many more. In October 2025 the Supreme Court handed the investigation to the CBI and set up a three-member monitoring committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Ajay Rastogi. The CBI investigation is continuing under the Supreme Court’s monitoring.
For the families of the 41, the pain of that evening has not faded. Any comment that turns their loss into a political taunt hurts them most of all.
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