CBI inquiry demanded into Chhattisgarh killings
The Human Rights Forum (HRF), AP Civil Liberties Committee (APCLC) and Organisation for Protection of Democratic Rights (OPDR) here on Wednesday demanded a CBI probe in the recent fake encounters in Chhattisgarh state by CRPF and COBRA commandos.
Addressing a press meet, HRF district convener N. Venugopal, OPDR state president Chavali Sudhakar and APCLC district secretary Gandla Venkat Rao, said that a fact-finding committee with various organisations including their three had visited Sarkeguda, Kottaguda and Rajupenta villages under Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh on July 6 and 7.
The leaders alleged that as many as 100 COBRA and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) commandos surrounded a normal village meeting of tribals on June 28, started firing without warning and killed 17 innocent persons. They further alleged that CRPF and COBRA commandos had killed children namely K. Parvati, 10, K. Ramesh, 11, and Saraswati, 12, branding them as Naxalites.
Claiming that only innocent villagers were killed in the firing, they refuted the statement of Union home minister P. Chidambaram about Naxal activities in the three tribal villages. They lamented that government was deploying CRPF, paramilitary and special police force in tribal villages for the removal of tribals in the name of Naxals.
The three with other leaders demanded prosecution of CRPF and COBRA commandos participated in the fake encounter by registering cases under 302 IPC and SC/ST Atrocity (Prevention) Act, CBI probe and protection of tribal community under V schedule of our Constitution.
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