Bengaluru, Dec. 3 -- The Tamil Nadu government has accused the Supreme Court of breaching principles of natural justice and non-discrimination by transferring the investigation into the Karur stampede to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) without giving the state an opportunity to respond, urging the court to recall its October 13 order and allow the probe to continue under the special investigation team (SIT) constituted by the Madras high court. In a strongly-worded affidavit filed ahead of the December 12 hearing before a bench led by justice JK Maheshwari, the state government argued that the Supreme Court's direction, passed while hearing a petition filed by Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK) leaders, amounted to granting final relief at an interim stage. The October 13 order shifted the investigation to CBI and entrusted supervision to a three-member committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Ajay Rastogi. Calling the order an "adjudication without pleadings," the state asserted that it was denied a "fair opportunity" to place crucial factual material before the court, including safety permissions, crowd-control assessments and compliance with NDMA guidelines leading up to the stampede, which killed 41 people and injured over 100 during a public outreach event of actor Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar's newly launched political party in Karur on September 27. The actor is popularly known by the mononym Vijay....