By IndiaTomorrow.net,
Hyderabad, 08 April 2015: Several civil organizations today condemned the Tuesday encounter in Telangana in which five undertrial terror accused were gunned by the escort policemen. Police said they opened fire when the accused tried to snatch weapons from police and tried to escape from the custody. However, photos of the encounter published in the media showed all the dead accused as handcuffed and chained with seats in the police bus.
central leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind showing photos of the Telangana encounter on 08 April 2015.
While civil organizations demanded arrest of the policemen and compensation to the families of the deceased the state government, according to NDTV, has ordered an inquiry by an executive magistrate and judicial inquiry into the encounter, following a Supreme Court directive in 2014.
At a press conference here in Delhi, central leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind strongly condemned the killings of five Muslim prisoners by the police demanded “immediate arrest of the guilty policemen, registration of cases to punish them and immediate compensation of Rs one crore each to families of the deceased.”
Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee leaders at press conference in Hyderabad on 08 April 2015.
Nusrat Ali said that “according to media reports and photos of the encounter, the five Muslim youths killed by police near Warangal-Nalgonda border were handcuffed or chained with seats in the police van, which itself clearly exposes the lie of the police that Mohammad Vaqaruddin, Mohammad Hanif, Amjad Ali, Reyaz Khan and Izhar Khan were snatching weapons from the police.”
At a press conference here in Hyderabad today, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee demanded the chief minister of Telangana state “to act as per the assurance given or resign from the post.”
“As the prisoners were in judicial custody, judiciary is responsible for the safety of prisoners to reach the court, so the judiciary should take immediate action against the police personnel who killed the prisoners. Judiciary of Telangana state must come forward to protect the Muslim prisoners as they are in judicial custody. Judiciary should take action through suo moto,” demanded Lateef Mohd. Khan, General Secretary of the committee.
