HYDERABAD: Alleging that Maoist leader Mallojula Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji was killed in a fake encounter by security forces, members of the AP Civil Liberties Committee on Wednesday demanded the West Bengal government to order an independent judicial inquiry headed by a retired Supreme Court judge or a sitting High Court judge into the incident in West Midnapore district on November 24.
APCLC representatives D Suresh Kumar, V Raghunath and J Lingaiah asserted that they would approach the apex court if the WB government under Mamata Banerjee fails to respond positively on Kishenji's encounter. "It appears that the forces of Operation Green Hunt were being advanced under pressure from MNCs in order to suppress people's voice. The Centre wants citizens to maintain 'zero tolerance' towards incidents of fake encounters but Kishenji was killed even when efforts to initiate talks between the state government and Maoists were underway," they alleged. "This (Kishenji's death) is a case of custodial killing. Hence, there is a need to have a Special Investigation Team to probe the incident since joint forces were involved in it. Case should be booked under Section 302 of the IPC and the guilty punished," they added.The APCLC representatives further said that the 22member factfinding team had visited the encounter site on December 1 and could not get the inquest report prepared by the executive magistrate nor the postmortem report of Kishenji. They also demanded immediate release of two villagers Budhev Mahato and Tarachand Tudu who were picked up and implicated in the case.
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