CLC Doubts Encounter of Maoists in Eturu Nagaram, terms it Fake

Hyderabad: Civil Liberties Committee general secretary N Narayana Rao on Sunday expressed doubts over the encounter of seven Maoists in Eturu Nagaram area of Mulugu district.

Addressing media persons here, he said it has been 12 months since CM Revanth Reddy came to power and 16 people had already been killed in police encounters. “They are all fake encounters. Is it a government of encounters, or a democratic government? We appeal to all the people to take note of these fake encounters. Now, we also have several doubts about the encounter that took place in Mulugu, because no one was injured on the part of the police. The bodies of the dead do not look like they were killed in an encounter. It looks like they were tortured and shot dead. So, the argument that it's not an encounter is gaining strength.

According to the villagers, they were poisoned and tortured. After they lost consciousness, they were shot dead in the name of encounter. So the civil rights body has a lot of doubts about this encounter. “Therefore, the autopsy of the dead Maoists should be conducted under the supervision of expert doctors. The civil rights body has been demanding an immediate judicial inquiry by the sitting judge. Till then, the corpses should be preserved so that they do not decompose,” he demanded.

He alleged that the Congress party, which came to power in the name of restoring democracy, had again turned the State into encounter Telangana within a year. He said the Revanth Reddy government had already been involved in 16 encounter killings. “They were all more vicious encounter killings than the previous BRS government. The civil rights body strongly condemns the killing of people in the name of the encounters, enforcing regular detentions in the name of police search in the forests. The committee demands that a case of murder be registered against the policemen involved in the Eturu Nagaram encounter,” Narayana Rao said.

The civil rights body has been demanding that the government stop the encounter killings, maintain democratic governance and continue peace talks with activists,” he said.