Hyderabad: Amidst high security, doctors at Gandhi Hospital conducted the re-postmortem examination on the body of CPI (ML) New Democracy leader P. Linganna following orders of the High Court.
After the autopsy, the body was taken to Linganna’s Gundala mandal in Bhadradri Kothagudem district for the last rites.
Linganna was killed in an allegedly fake encounter between the police and Maoists in the forest at Rollagadda. Two others who were caught by the police were taken away by angry locals who attacked the police following the killing.
Following this, on a petition filed by the Civil Liberties Committee, the High Court had ordered a second postmortem to be conducted on the body.
The police brought Linganna’s body to the hospital mortuary mortuary at about 3 am on Friday. Police threw a strong security ring around the hospital to prevent activists from thronging the hospital.
Doctors performed the autopsy before handing the body over Linganna’s family at about 1.30 pm.
About 40 persons including activists were taken into preventive custody by the police and transported to the Bolaram police station from where they were released later. “Activists who came to the Gandhi Hospital were taken into preventive custody,” said North Zone DCP.
