Civil Liberties Committee seeks judicial probe into Maoist encounter deaths

Alleges that Chhattisgarh police are killing detained Maoists under the pretext of encounters; call for Operation Kagar to be stopped; urge public, activist, and Supreme Court intervention

Kothagudem: The leaders of the Civil Liberties Committee (CLC) have demanded that the Chhattisgarh police produce all Maoists in their custody before the court.

CLC State secretary Nakka Narayana Rao, along with leaders Prof Gaddam Laxman, Rajaram, PM Raju, and Sudarshan, addressing the media in Hyderabad, stated that police had taken around 10 Maoists into custody at Parshagar village in the National Park area of Bijapur district on June 5.

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Among them were Maoist Central Committee member Gautham alias Sudhakar, Telangana State Committee member Mailarapu Adellu alias Bhaskar, Bandi Prakash, National Park secretary Dilip, and cadres Ramanna, Munna, Sunitha, Mahesh, and others, who were all taken into custody alive. However, both Sudhakar and Bhaskar were later shown as killed in an encounter, they said.

The leaders alleged that all those detained in Parshagar village were being tortured and killed one by one under the pretext of an encounter. The CLC strongly opposed these killings and demanded that all those detained be produced before the court and that the government be held accountable for their right to life.

They urged the Supreme Court, the public, and human rights activists to raise their voices against the encounters and called for an immediate halt to Operation Kagar. The killings of Maoists in alleged encounters should be investigated by a sitting judge, they demanded.

Democratic rights and civil liberties are completely at stake across the country, the CLC leaders said, appealing to the public to protest against the daily killing of arrested Maoists.