The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday rejected the report submitted by the Director General of State Police JV Ramudu, and ordered him to appear in court later Friday.
Meanwhile, counsel for the petitioner V Raghunath raised questions about the legality of the FIR was registered by the Police of Andhra. “The court raised two questions. First, the legal form is an FIR registered against a dead person? And secondly that the agency is investigating the case. When the DGP itself is part of the working group, how can research be handled by the SDPO? “Raghunath said.
“On behalf of the victims, he told the court that the FIR is registered against one person dead and 450 others unknown. Never in the history of free India has lodged an FIR that,” he added.
The Madras High Court has ordered the bodies of the six victims to be preserved in Thiruvannamalai Government Hospital. The lawyer of the victims, K. Balu said the request of a post-mortem had been submitted and that a request to transfer the case to the High Court of Andhra had also been presented.
The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to the Chief Secretary and DGP of Andhra Pradesh, demanding an explanation for the act of the police and forest officials in two weeks. The matter was taken to the audition in camp session of the commission to be held in Hyderabad on April 23.
Vellore: MDMK leader Vaiko and more than 250 party cadres were arrested in Vellore on Friday when taking out a rally to Andhra Pradesh to register their protest against the killings of 20 woodcutters Tamil Nadu.
After addressing his party workers near Anna Kalaiarangam here, Vaiko leading a demonstration to Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, when police in Tamil Nadu him and his paintings near Vellore fort intercepted.
The MDMK men planned to picket Chittoor district collectorate to protest the slaughter.
The police asked them to disperse. When Vaiko and his supporters refused, the police stopped them. They were presented at a wedding hall here and be released later in the evening.
Twenty loggers – 12 of Tiruvannamalai district, seven of Dharmapuri and Salem one – were gunned down by police in Andhra Pradesh on charges of smuggling of red sandalwood forest, April 7.
