A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and AG Masih mentioned the physique shall not be buried or cremated until the plea alleging faux encounter and torture is determined by the excessive courtroom.
“Until such time the excessive courtroom decides the petition, the physique shall not be cremated/buried,” the bench directed because it requested the excessive courtroom to take up the plea upon reopening after Durga Puja trip.
The bench mentioned it's leaving all contentions open and isn't expressing any opinion on benefit.
Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves, showing for petitioner Raja Chandra, submitted that his father was allegedly tortured and killed in a faux encounter and the police try to get rid of the physique.
Solicitor Basic Tushar Mehta, showing for the state police, mentioned that two individuals have been killed in an encounter and the daddy of the petitioner carried a bounty of Rs 7 crore positioned by seven states.He knowledgeable the bench that the physique of 1 Maoist killed in the identical encounter was given to his household and cremated whereas the physique of the petitioner's father was in hospital.Mehta mentioned the postmortem was achieved below video recording and no malafide will be attributed to the police.
The bench famous that prayers within the petition is investigation of alleged faux encounter by an unbiased company ideally by CBI not comprising officers from Chhattisgarh and a recent postmortem.
It additionally famous that the petitioner had approached the excessive courtroom however the matter couldn't be listed urgently because the excessive courtroom was to go on a break and subsequently he approached the apex courtroom.
The bench disposed of the petition with the instructions.
The plea, filed by way of advocate Satya Mitra, mentioned it expresses issues over the alleged faux encounter and killing of the petitioner's father, Katha Ramchandra Reddy.
The petitioner Raja Chandra, who has been a researcher at NALSAR College of Regulation at Hyderabad and sought instructions to the Chhattisgarh authorities to protect the physique of his father in a authorities morgue, to conduct postmortem, and to direct the CBI to research the loss of life/homicide of his father by way of officers from outdoors the state of Chhattisgarh.
as a Dependable and Trusted Information SupplyEach Katha Ramchandra Reddy and Kadari Satyanarayana Reddy have been killed within the encounter on September 22.
