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Fake Encounter Deaths--II
The Human Rights Forum (HRF) demands that the police personnel who participated in the alleged encounters on the Warangal–Nalgonda border in Telangana and the Seshachalam forest near Tirupati in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh resulting in the death of 20 persons be booked under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) 302 (murder) and other appropriate sections and criminally prosecuted. The criminal investigation into both the cases must be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The Human Rights Forum (HRF) demands that the police personnel who participated in the alleged encounters on the Warangal–Nalgonda border in Telangana and the Seshachalam forest near Tirupati in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh resulting in the death of 20 persons be booked under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) 302 (murder) and other appropriate sections and criminally prosecuted. The criminal investigation into both the cases must be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
HRF believes that the five undertrial prisoners who were unarmed, in handcuffs and under heavy escort were shot dead by the police while they were being taken to Hyderabad for a court hearing. Going by preliminary reports, we also think the Seshachalam deaths were not the result of the Special Task Force (STF) resorting to firing in the face of a serious threat to them from red sanders “smugglers” but because the police shot to kill without sufficient threat. We recall that last year the STF shot dead 11 persons (five in Kadapa District and six in Chittoor District) in several fake encounters in the Seshachalam forest.
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