No re-autopsy on Alair victims
Hyderabad: Justice Vilas V. Afzulpurkar of the Hyderabad High Court on Monday was not inclined to order registration of FIR against the police personnel involved in the Alair encounter and also to order re-post mortem of the bodies of Vikaruddin and four terror suspects who were killed in encounter in Nalgonda district on April 7.
The judge was dealing with petitions by Md Ahmed, the father of a victim, and also others challenging the inaction of the Alair police in registering a crime against the police officers who participated in the encounter despite their complaint on April 11.
Bojja Tarakam, senior counsel representing one of the petitioners, said that the judicial first class magistrate of concerned jurisdiction be directed to submit his report on the incident.
He contended that mere visiting of the place of offence by the jurisdictional magistrate cannot be concluded as completion of magisterial probe under the provisions of the CrPC, the magistrate has to peruse the material and evidence and submit the report.
V. Raghunath, counsel appearing for Ahmed and others, said that the Alair police had hastily conducted post mortem and has not even disclosed any report. He urged the court to order the re-post mortem and any delay will cause further deterioration of the bodies.
J. Ramachandra Rao additional advocate general, submitted that the government has already constituted a special inv-estigation team on the incident.
While opposing the re-post mortem and registration of case against police personnel, he said if the SIT officials felt that fresh autopsy of bodies is to be conducted, they can take steps for re-post mortem and the SIT is also empo-wered to issue counter FIR if it requires.
While dismissing the interim application for fresh autopsy, the judge admitted the main petitions and posted the hearing on June 8.
Scrap secretary Act: Opposition
A. Revanth Reddy, TDP deputy floor leader in Telangana Legislative Assembly and Nalgonda Congress MP Gutha Sukender Reddy on Tuesday moved the HC challenging Telangana Parliamentary Secretaries Act.
The petitioners contended that Act was intended to pick up the members of the state legislature and appoint them as Parliamentary Secretary.
While Article 164 (1A) of the Constitution has provided a ceiling on the number of ministries in proportion to the total number of members in the state legislature, the Act has enabled the government to appoint such number of Parliamen-tary Secretaries as the Chief Minister deems fit and proper. They urged the court to declare the Act as illegal.
SP told to act on complaint
Justice Vilas V Afzulp-urkar of Hyderabad HC on Tuesday directed the Nizamabad SP to submit an action taken on a complaint made by Ravinder Reddy, an RTI activist.
The petitioner told the judge that after he came to know that the relatives of Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, a cabinet minister in Telangana, were carrying out constructions in violations to the sanctioned plan in the district, he sought details under the RTI.
He said that soon after filing the application, the police detained him and tortured him for seeking information of the construction belonging to the minister’s family me-mbers. He submitted that despite of his representation to the SP against the alleged torture; the official did not reacted on it. While directing the SP to submit the report, the judge adjourned the case.