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*URGENT PRESS RELEASE on the reported "Encounter Death" at Kodaikanal*
We request you to kindly publish the following, with reference to the above,
in your esteemed daily and oblige.
The following is the Press Note, released by PUCL, Tamil Nadu and
Puducherry, after holding its State Committee meeting on 19.04.2008, at
Coimbatore.
*PRESS RELEASE*
The State Committee meeting which was attended by Dr. V. Suresh, Advocate
and President of PUCL, Tamil Nadu and Mr. S. Balamurugan, Advocate and
General Secretary of PUCL, Tamil Nadu and various Executive Committee
members, including Mr. M. Mohd. Abu Backer and Mr. Pon. Chandran,
representing the Coimbatore Unit, passed the following resolutions,
unanimously:
1. While the State Committee was holding its meeting, the news of the
"Encounter Death" of Mr. Naveen Prasad, reported to be a Maoist killed today
in the Encounter, in the jungles of Kodaikanal, has come as a rude shock.
2. Considering the notorious record of Tamil Nadu Police, particularly
in the recent past, with regard to the so called "Encounter Deaths", which
were invariably found to be "fake encounters", we have all the reasons to
suspect the very cause of death.
3. While the media claims that the Maoist was killed and four escaped
in the "exchange of fire, between the militants and the police, for more
than an hour", the police claims that "they only returned the fire in the
direction from where they were shot by the militants, while they were on
rounds. Subsequently the police found a body of a Maoist shot dead".
4. It appears that the police "rounded up the militants" after a tip
received about the militants hiding themselves in the jungle. In
case, the Police had encircled the militants, one wonders how the others
could escape from their encirclement?
5. Well, it is a typical story of the police, in all encounters, which
were proved to be fake, eventually during our earlier Fact Findings of such
encounters.
6. In the given context only an impartial medical/forensic report only
would reveal the exact cause of death.
7. In view of the "criminal record" of Tamil Nadu Police, in such
instances, PUCL, Tamil Nadu-Puducherry, demand that a Judicial Inquiry is
ordered forthwith to investigate into the cause of death and to know the
whereabouts of those who have reported to have "escaped", since we
understand that an Habeas Corpus writ petition has been already filed to
produce Viswanathan and four others, who were alleged to have been taken
into custody by the STF.
8. In the meanwhile, we condemn the action of the State, to scuttle
the political opposition by resorting to illegal and violent means, using
its machinery, without rhyme or reason.
9. Finally, it is urged that the State refrains to look into the
"militant dissent", as a mere Law & Order problem but to tackle it from a
broader socio-economic perspective. It is needless to emphasize that such
violent means and killings by the State will only breed further counter
violence, which is a desperate manifestation of the deeply rooted
socio-economic evils in the society.
10. The other organizational and other resolutions passed in the State
Committee meeting will be advised separately.
*M. MOHAMMED ABU BACKER*
Coordinator
PUCL, Coimbatore.
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