Hyderabad --The Hyderabad High Court on Friday directed Andhra Pradesh police to furnish the case diary relating to a case registered in connection with the killing of 20 people in police firing in Seshachalam forests of Chittoor district on April 7.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice P V Sanjay Kumar directed the Investigating Officer (IO) to produce before the court the case diary on April 28, while declining to accept for now the defence prayer seeking a CBI probe into the case.
The bench sought to know from Additional Advocate General D Srinivas about the stage of investigation pertaining to the case. “After FIR has been registered, whether the IO examined any person? Is anybody arrested or questioned,” it asked.
The AAG informed the bench that preliminary steps were undertaken with regard to the matter. However, the complainant (Muniyammal and others) refused to record their statements before the police.
“A Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been constituted to probe the incident,” the AAG said. Defence counsel V Raghunath submitted before the court
that the FIR was registered only on April 14 and that too against “unknown” STF personnel, which he asserted “was a malicious intention to screen (shelter or protect) the culprits.”
Indian Express
