Encounters: APCLA seeks judicial probe

RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM: The Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Association (APCLA) has sought a judicial inquiry into the Malkangiri and Bhopal encounters.

In a statement on Wednesday, APCLA State president Muppalla Subba Rao said that the police should produce Maoist leader Ramakrishna and others in the court.

While unarmed SIMI activists were shot dead in Bhopal, the police killed the Maoists in Malkangiri as they were opposing “illegal” mining in the area.

He said that both the State and Union governments were curbing primary rights of people and encouraging State-sponsored violence.