Human rights organisations have sought a judicial probe into the killing of a Maoist in an alleged ''fake encounter'' with the police in the agency area in Viskahapatnam on the Andhra-Odisha border on June 20. Poignant scenes marked the conduct of the funeral of the slain maoist, K.Surya (23) at Kurisapadu near here on Sunday.
Speaking on the occasion, Revolutionary leader G. Kalyan Rao hailed the Kerala High Court's observation that ‘‘being a Maoist is of no crime, though the political ideology of the Maoist will not synchronise with our constitutional polity.”
Homage was paid to the slain maoist by, among others, Amara Veerula Bandhu Mitrula Committee State leaders Anjamma and Padma, Committee for Release of Political Prisoners State vice-president K. Kanakaiah, OPDR State vice-president Ch.Sudhakar, AP Civil Liberties Committee leader K.Annapurnamma and Progressive Democratic Movement district president Bathula Mohan Rao.
