Thursday, January 13, 2011

Agnivesh plea in SC for judicial probe into Azad death

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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