Adilabad Judicial First Class Magistrate Mary Sara Danamma on Friday issued summons to a doctor, Neelakanteshwar Rao, the surgeon who had performed post-mortem on the body of Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad in July 2010, to appear before the court on June 11.
The summons were issued after the Magistrate accepted the plea of petitioner K. Padma, wife of Azad, to include the surgeon as a witness in the case related to the alleged encounter of the top Maoist leader.
The petitioner had made the plea on March 27 but the CBI objected to it on the ground that no case was made out as the doctor had already been questioned as part of the investigation into the encounter. The petitioner, however, contested the contention of the CBI which resulted in the Magistrate issuing summons.
Dr. Neelakanteshwar Rao, to be the 4th witness in the case, was asked to appear in the court with relevant records including the post-mortem examination report.
Petitioner Padma, Babita Pandey, wife of slain journalist Hemchandra Pandey, and Swami Agnivesh have already recorded their statements in the encounter case.
