Blood wood killings: 2 states in turmoil
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Responding to a motion moved by the Andhra Pradesh civil liberties committee (APCLC) that 20 poor labourers from Tamil Nadu had been killed in cold blood by AP police on Tuesday in the Seshachalam forest range, the Hyderabad high court on Wednesday sought a detailed report from the director general of police on the encounter by Friday. Chief justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta instructed the AP government to state in its response whether a case of un natural death had been natural death had been registered or not and sought to know the details of the postmortem.
The APCLC petition, moved by its general secretary Chilaka Sudhakar, also sought the registration of an FIR under IPC 302 against all the police personnel responsible for it. The petitioner also sought a CBI probe into case.
The post mortem of the labourers killed were completed on Wednesday evening. Chittoor district revenue officer Vijay Chander said the bodies will be handed over to the relatives. "We will wait for a week for the relatives to collect the bodies. If they do not turn up by then, we will send the bodies to Tamil Nadu," he said.
Meanwhile, tension prevailed in villages on the AP-TN border with protesters damaging properties belonging to Telugus and the AP government. Security has been beefed up on the border even as APSRTC and private bus opera tors suspended services to Tamil Nadu for the second day on Wednesday .
Nellore district police have banned fishing in the Pulicat Lake abutting Tamil Nadu fearing attacks on AP fishermen.Those who have already ventured into the sea were directed to return. The encounter also impacted the pilgrim arrival at Tirumala. The general darshan took only four hours as against the usual eight to nine hours.
Activists promise living evidence
A n APCLC team in Tirupati said it has ensured the safe custody of a labourer who narrowly missed his date with the `encounter'.According to APCLC member Kranthi Chaitanya, the wood cutter hailed from one of the three villages under Ananthapuram village of Polur taluk in Tiruvannamalai district. "He, along with seven fellow wood cutters boarded a bus from his village for Chittoor. Around 6.30 pm on Monday, AP police stopped the bus as soon as it entered the state at Nagari. While the others were taken away, the survivor went unnoticed as he was sitting in the ladies seat. He got down at the next bus stop and returned home. The next morning he saw on TV channels that the seven labourers were among the 20 killed," Chaitanya told TOI. "We are withholding his identity for security reasons. We will produce the man at an opportune time before the media," he said. APCLC got to know about the survivor when relatives of those killed in the encounter came to Tirupati to protest the incident.
Families of slain labourers say their kin were not smugglers but Andhra Pradesh government stands by police force
Responding to a motion moved by the Andhra Pradesh civil liberties committee (APCLC) that 20 poor labourers from Tamil Nadu had been killed in cold blood by AP police on Tuesday in the Seshachalam forest range, the Hyderabad high court on Wednesday sought a detailed report from the director general of police on the encounter by Friday. Chief justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta instructed the AP government to state in its response whether a case of un natural death had been natural death had been registered or not and sought to know the details of the postmortem.
The APCLC petition, moved by its general secretary Chilaka Sudhakar, also sought the registration of an FIR under IPC 302 against all the police personnel responsible for it. The petitioner also sought a CBI probe into case.
The post mortem of the labourers killed were completed on Wednesday evening. Chittoor district revenue officer Vijay Chander said the bodies will be handed over to the relatives. "We will wait for a week for the relatives to collect the bodies. If they do not turn up by then, we will send the bodies to Tamil Nadu," he said.
Meanwhile, tension prevailed in villages on the AP-TN border with protesters damaging properties belonging to Telugus and the AP government. Security has been beefed up on the border even as APSRTC and private bus opera tors suspended services to Tamil Nadu for the second day on Wednesday .
Nellore district police have banned fishing in the Pulicat Lake abutting Tamil Nadu fearing attacks on AP fishermen.Those who have already ventured into the sea were directed to return. The encounter also impacted the pilgrim arrival at Tirumala. The general darshan took only four hours as against the usual eight to nine hours.
Activists promise living evidence
A n APCLC team in Tirupati said it has ensured the safe custody of a labourer who narrowly missed his date with the `encounter'.According to APCLC member Kranthi Chaitanya, the wood cutter hailed from one of the three villages under Ananthapuram village of Polur taluk in Tiruvannamalai district. "He, along with seven fellow wood cutters boarded a bus from his village for Chittoor. Around 6.30 pm on Monday, AP police stopped the bus as soon as it entered the state at Nagari. While the others were taken away, the survivor went unnoticed as he was sitting in the ladies seat. He got down at the next bus stop and returned home. The next morning he saw on TV channels that the seven labourers were among the 20 killed," Chaitanya told TOI. "We are withholding his identity for security reasons. We will produce the man at an opportune time before the media," he said. APCLC got to know about the survivor when relatives of those killed in the encounter came to Tirupati to protest the incident.
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