CLC leaders demand probe into encounters by sitting judge

CLC president Prof. Gaddam Laxman and general secretary N Narayana Rao speaking to the media, .wanted the Centre to withdraw its ‘Operation Kagar’ launched to eliminate Maoists.

Khammam: Civil Liberties Committee (CLC) leaders demanded a sitting judge to probe into the encounters that took place from January 1, 2024 to till date in the country.

CLC president Prof. Gaddam Laxman and general secretary N Narayana Rao speaking to the media here on Saturday wanted the Centre to withdraw its ‘Operation Kagar’ launched to eliminate Maoists.

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Earlier in the day as many as 16 CLC leaders including Prof. Laxman and Narayana Rao who were on a fact finding mission tried to visit the site where an encounter took place near Mothe village under Karakagudem police station limits in Kothagudem district recently.

They were intercepted at different locations at Manugur and were taken into custody by police. At first, police took them to Aswapuram police station, later shifted them to Khammam in a private bus and dropped them at Yellandu crossroads.

The members of different people’s organisations staged a protest at the bus stand area in Kothagudem and in Khammam condemning the detention of the CLC leaders. They shouted slogans against the State government.

Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy promised to form a democratic government to protect the freedom of speech in Telangana but contrary to his claims the CLC leaders were taken into custody while they were on a fact finding mission, they said.

Dalit Adivasi Sangham activists confronts CLC leaders

Kothagudem: A group of women activists of Dalit Adivasi Sangham confronted Civil Liberties Committee (CLC) leaders against their alleged support to Maoists.

The women questioned the CLC leaders’ silence over the killing of a Maoist female cadre Neelso alias Banti Radha in August this year by CPI (Maoist) party leadership branding her as a police informer.

The incident took place at Manugur in the district on Saturday when the police took the CLC leaders into custody while they were going on a fact finding mission to a forest area in Karakagudem where six naxals were killed in an encounter on September 5.

The sangham activists submitted a memorandum to the CLC leaders seeking them to explain why they never talked about the killing of Neelso, a dalit woman. They also sought to know why the Maoist leadership caused no harm to naxals, belonging to upper castes, when they were found to be police informers but killed a dalit cadre.