Chennai, Sept. 30 -- Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK) president and actor Vijay deliberately delayed his arrival at a public rally in Tamil Nadu's Karur district by making unscheduled stops for roadshows to display his political strength and his party leaders did not listen to repeated warnings from police officers on the ground to regulate their cadre, says the first information report (FIR) filed on the stampede on September 27 night that killed 41 people. HT has seen the four-page FIR that was filed by inspector of police G Manivannan that blames Vijay's fledging party TVK for one of the worst political rally tragedies in the state.

The FIR filed at 9.45 on the night of the incident at the Karur town police says that they had imposed 11 ...