Agnivesh plea in SC for judicial probe into Azad death
Social activist Swami Agnivesh has moved the Supreme Court seeking a judicial inquiry into the killing of Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar Azad and journalist Hemchandra Pandey in an alleged encounter with the Andhra Pradesh Police six months ago.
Azad, a senior member of banned CPI(Maoist) central committee, and Pandey, were allegedly killed in the police action on the intervening night of July 1 and 2, 2010, in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh, close to Maharashtra.
Agnivesh is joined by Pandey’s widow, Babita, for a direction from the court to the government for a judicial probe on the contention that both post-mortem reports and a fact-finding exercise carried out by rights groups indicate that the encounter was not genuine. They have referred to the fact-finding carried out by the Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations, that both were killed by the Andhra Police in blatant violation of their rights.
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