Another PIL filed by activists against ‘encounter’

Hyderabad | Thursday | 12th December, 2019

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By Express News ServiceHYDERABAD: Another public interest litigation petition against Shadnagar encounter was filed in the Telangana High Court on Wednesday. The petitioners alleged that the SIT constituted by State government, was biased and inimical to the mandate of investigation that it has been entrusted with. They sought direction to the State government to register an FIR under Section 302 IPC against the policemen involved in the encounter. They also sought judicial inquiry into the custodial killings of the four accused. State principal secretaries to home and general administration, DGP, commissioners of police of Cyberabad and Rachakonda, secretary to ministry of external affairs and others were named as the respondents..