Chittoor killings: High Court orders fresh autopsy on victim
17 April 2015 6:23 AM IST
The Hyderabad High Court on Thursday directed the Andhra Pradesh government to conduct a fresh autopsy on the body of Sashi Kumar, one of the 20 people killed in police firing in red sanders forest of Chittoor district on April 7.
In response to an application filed by Muniyammal, Kumar’s wife and a native of Tamil Nadu, a division Bench of Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice PV Sanjay Kumar passed the direction.
Muniyammal had sought a fresh autopsy for her husband and five other victims. She had also demanded that the procedure be videographed.
However, the court ordered fresh autopsy only for Shashi Kumar. Refusing to entertain the plea of K Balu, the petitioner’s lawyer, that fresh autopsies be directed for five others, the court said the other parties (legal heirs/relatives of other victims) had not come to the court. The bodies are kept in a hospital in Thiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu.
Responding to a plea by Additional Advocate General (AAG) D Srinivas on getting the autopsy done by an independent institute, the Bench said a team of doctors from the state-run Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) will conduct the autopsies in Chennai.
HC asks Telangana govt to file counter in ‘encounter’ case
The Hyderabad High Court on Thursday directed the Telangana government to file a counter affidavit on a petition filed by the father of an alleged terror suspect, seeking the registration of a criminal case in connection with the killing of his son and four others in police custody. Viquar Ahmed and four others were killed in Nalgonda district while being brought to a Hyderabad court from a prison in Warangal on April 7. The HC asked Additional Advocate General if police had filed a case on the complaint filed by Viquar's father Mohammed Ahmed.
In response to an application filed by Muniyammal, Kumar’s wife and a native of Tamil Nadu, a division Bench of Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice PV Sanjay Kumar passed the direction.
Muniyammal had sought a fresh autopsy for her husband and five other victims. She had also demanded that the procedure be videographed.
However, the court ordered fresh autopsy only for Shashi Kumar. Refusing to entertain the plea of K Balu, the petitioner’s lawyer, that fresh autopsies be directed for five others, the court said the other parties (legal heirs/relatives of other victims) had not come to the court. The bodies are kept in a hospital in Thiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu.
Responding to a plea by Additional Advocate General (AAG) D Srinivas on getting the autopsy done by an independent institute, the Bench said a team of doctors from the state-run Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) will conduct the autopsies in Chennai.
HC asks Telangana govt to file counter in ‘encounter’ case
The Hyderabad High Court on Thursday directed the Telangana government to file a counter affidavit on a petition filed by the father of an alleged terror suspect, seeking the registration of a criminal case in connection with the killing of his son and four others in police custody. Viquar Ahmed and four others were killed in Nalgonda district while being brought to a Hyderabad court from a prison in Warangal on April 7. The HC asked Additional Advocate General if police had filed a case on the complaint filed by Viquar's father Mohammed Ahmed.
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