The bodies had been shifted to MGM Hospital late on Tuesday night
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WARANGAL: The post-mortem of the two Naxalites killed in the police encounter in Rangapur, Sruthi alias Mahitha and Vidyasagar Reddy alias Sagar, was conducted here on Wednesday.
The bodies had been shifted to MGM Hospital late on Tuesday night and the post-mortem was held amid tension and tight police security. Parents of the dead were allowed to see the bodies following court intervention. After post-mortem, the bodies were handed over to the relatives. Although the area around the mortuary was cordoned off to avoid any untoward incident and prohibitory orders were implemented, a large number of people gathered at the mortuary.
Activists alleged that the encounter was fake. Supporters of the Naxals took out a procession near the hospital. Revolutionary poet Varavara Rao, Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi leader Manda Krishna Madiga and others visited the mortuary. Both dubbed the encounter as fake and accused the police of torturing and killing the two naxals.
Erraballi seeks judicial probe:
Telugu Desam legislature party leader Erraballi Dayakara Rao on Wednesday demanded a judicial probe into the police encounter in which two Naxalites were killed Tuesday.
“The Medaram encounter is nothing but fake. The police picked up the Maoist sympathisers to the forest area and shot them from point blank range,” he said. He asked how the two who had agitated for the cause of Telangana and participated in the movement could be dubbed as Maoists and the police could kill them. He urged the CM Chandrashekar Rao to ensure that there will be no more encounters in TS.
He also said that the police version of the encounter was nothing new and the same version was being given again and again, in which people have lost faith. Congress MLA T. Jeevan Reddy too demanded a judicial probe and said the police was only eliminating leaders who fought for Telangana statehood.
No maoist ideology in Telangana, says DGP:
Telangana state DGP Anurag Sharma said on Wednesday that the state police was firm on curbing the Maoist menace in the state. Two Maoists cadres, Shruti and Vidyasagar Reddy, were shot dead by security forces in Warangal on Wednesday. “We have a clear and strict policy on this matter. We will not allow the Maoists to gain ground. We will not leave any scope for them to surface in the state again,” he added.
When pointed out that a 19-year-old dropout, Vivek K., had been among the three alleged Maoists killed by the police in June this year in Khammam, the DGP said that the students had joined the extremist outfit because of their personal reasons. “It is basically because of their personal issues. It is not true that the ideological basis (of Maoists) is developing again and is attracting young people, especially educated people. There is literally no ideological base left here. Youngsters are joining only because of their personal convictions,” the DGP said.
Talking about the recent arrest of Afsha Jabeen, who was held by the Cyberabad police for allegedly trying to recruit people for IS, he said that it was an apt example of people getting radicalised by social media. “Some content on social media is radicalising and criminalising the youngsters. The woman had mobilised youngsters and had tried to attract them to the IS ideology using social media,” Mr Sharma said.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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