HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday asked the Telangana government why a complaint of the family of the deceased was not registered under Section 302 IPC to punish those involved in the alleged encounter killings of Maoists Shruti and Vidyasagar in the Mulug reserve forest area of Tadwai mandal in Warangal district on September 15 this year.
The bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice Dilip B Bhosale and Justice S Ravi Kumar, posed this question while dealing with a PIL filed by the Civil Liberties Committee of Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh seeking directions to the Telangana government to entrust the encounter probe to the CBI.
Petitioner’s counsel V Raghunath alleged that the police had killed the duo in a fake encounter. He further alleged that the probe into the incident was not proper. Besides, the police had failed to register a case under Section 302 of IPC based on a complaint given by the mother of the deceased, Shruti, against the officers involved in the killings, he pointed out. Reacting to the submissions, the bench asked the AAG why a separate FIR was not registered based on a complaint lodged by the mother of the deceased.
In reply, additional advocate-general J Ramachandra Rao said that as per a Supreme Court judgment there was no need to register multiple FIRs on the same incident. He sought time to submit a copy of the judgment to the court.
Following the request, the bench adjourned the hearing to December 3.