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‘Encounter’: APCLC demands CBI probe

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: Armed with an eye witness account into the antecedents of ‘encounter killings’ of CPI (Maoist) Central Committee member Patel Sudhkar Reddy and State committee member Venkaiah in Warangal forests on May 24, the A. P. Civil Liberties Committee (APCLC) has demanded a CBI inquiry into the incident.

A fact-finding team which visited the encounter site at Lavvala forest area in Tadvai mandal of Warangal district and also Nasik in Maharashtra released its report to the media persons on Tuesday. APCLC leaders G. Haragopal, D. Suresh Kumar and V. Raghunath said they would file an additional affidavit based on fact finding report in the High Court soon.

N. Tirumala Devi, wife of Sudhakar Reddy’s brother late Pratap Reddy, told reporters that she had visited Sudhakar Reddy at his invitation on May 20 in Nasik to resolve a dispute over her share of family property. She was his guest at Muktidham, Room No. 134. Sudhakar Reddy rarely ventured out but on May 23, he left at 10.30 a.m. after informing her that he would be back by 8 p.m. He never returned and later she learnt about his killing in an encounter along with Venkaiah in Warangal forests, 1,000 km away from Nasik.

It was clear to the fact finding team that the Maoist leaders were picked up by State SIB police from Nasik, taken to Warangal and shot dead in the forest. It was contrary to the police version that they ran into Sudhakar Reddy and others during combing operations and killed them in an exchange of fire, they said.

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