Demanding a judicial inquiry by a sitting judge into the killing of Communist Party of India (Maoist) Polit Bureau member Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji, Abhijit Mazumdar, a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation faction and son of the pioneer of the Naxalite movement, Charu Mazumdar, said the government did not want the truth to emerge.
He said a probe conducted by the State's Criminal Investigation Department “can easily be manipulated by the State government,” and only a judicial inquiry would be able to address the fears that Kishenji was killed in a fake encounter.
“When we had filed a case in the High Court and the Supreme Court demanding an inquiry into the custodial death of my father, the case was dismissed because time had lapsed,” Mr. Mazumdar told The Hindu over telephone from Siliguri.
