CID TO PROBE MAN’S KILLING BY SECURITY FORCES
LATEHAR: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) will investigate the recent killing of an armed man, who was shot dead by security forces while hunting, inside Piri forest under Garu police station in Latehar district, police said on Tuesday.
Latehar superintendent of police (SP) Prashant Anand said, “As per the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) guideline, the case has been transferred to CID for inquiry. There is nothing new in this, as every case leading to gunning down of Maoists or a criminal in encounter with security forces is handed over to CID.”
As per police, security forces were carrying out an anti-Maoist offensive inside the forest last Saturday when the firing took place. They mistook a group of six armed villagers, who entered the forests for hunting, for Maoists and one of them, identified as Brahmdev Singh (23), was killed in the “exchange of fire between both sides.”
Meanwhile, police lodged an FIR in this connection against the other five persons. “Raghunath, Rajeshwar, Dinanath, Govind and Sukuldev, all residents of Piri village, have been booked for involving in the encounter with the police, possession of illegal arms and carrying out hunting in reserve forest area,” a police official said.
According to locals, the armed group entered the reserve forest to hunt for a wild boar or rabbit to celebrate Sarhul, a tribal festival, the next day.
Police said that the hunters fired in the forest, and the security forces having taken position on a nearby hill, mistook them for Maoists and retaliated. Brahmdev was killed in the process, officials said.
The SP said, “We have released the five villagers after a written undertaking of extending cooperation in the investigation. They have also surrendered their fire arms to the police,” adding that the “police was taking a a very balanced approach in this case and there was nothing to hide.”
Meanwhile, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) on Tuesday demanded action against security personnel for shooting the local, besides a government job and compensation of ₹10 lakh to the bereaved family.
A fact finding team in of the party, in its report submitted to the state committee, also denied that the village youths fired any shot during the incident.
NEW DELHI: A 60-year-old woman and a minor girl, who have alleged that they have been gang raped by TMC supporters or workers during post-poll violence in West Bengal, have moved the Supreme Court seeking probe by an SIT in these cases.
Two separate applications have been filed by the woman and a 17-year-old girl seeking impleadment in the pending petition related to alleged killing of two BJP workers in poll-related violence in the state.
On May 18, the apex court had issued notices to the Centre, West Bengal government and others seeking their responses on a petition filed by Biswajit Sarkar, whose elder brother was killed, and co-petitioner Swaranalata Adhikari, whose husband was killed in poll-related violence. The application filed by the 60-year-old woman alleged that she was gang raped in front of her six-year-old grandson by supporters or workers of the state’s “ruling political party” on the intervening night of May 4-5. It alleged that case was registered by the police but it has named only one of the five accused in the FIR.
Another application, filed in the top court by the minor girl belonging to a Scheduled Caste community, has alleged that she was gang raped on May 9 by the members or supporters of the ruling political party. It said that an FIR was lodged in the matter on May 10.
MUMBAI: Two more persons have been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the case of explosivesladen SUV found near the residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani and the subsequent murder of businessman Mansukh Hiran, an official said on Tuesday. A special court remanded Santosh Shelar and Anand Jadhav, the two accused, in NIA’s custody till June 21, he added. “Shelar and Jadhav were nabbed from Malad area here on June 11...both were involved in the conspiracy to plant the SUV with explosives near Ambani’s residence,” the official said.