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From: "chro chro chro" <chro@rediffmail.com> The Hindu, January 06, 2004, Tuesday Muthanga: CBI to question police officers By Biju Govind KOZHIKODE JAN. 5 . The Central Bureau of Investigation (Special Crime Branch) will question senior police officers in the State next week in connection with the probe into the alleged atrocities committed by the police against Adivasis at Muthanga in February last. The Deputy Inspector General of Police (Intelligence), N. Sanker Reddy, the Kerala Armed Police (KAP) Battalion Commandant, Suresh Raj Purohit, and the former Wayanad district Superintendent of Police (SP), U.N. Nateshan, are among the senior officers to be interrogated in this connection, CBI sources told The Hindu here on Monday. Mr. Reddy was the North Zone DIG while Mr. Purohit was in charge of the commando operation to evict the Adivasi `encroachers' from the Muthanga Wildlife Sanctuary on February 19, 2003. They would be interrogated in the presence of the Chennai CBI-SCB Superintendent of Police, Venkataraman, and the Chief Investigating Officer (CIO), Reghukumar. The officers would be directed to report at the temporary office functioning at the Rest House at Sulthan Bathery in Wayanad. The Mumbai CBI-SCB DIG, Prasad, was here last month to give directions in this regard, sources said. Several police personnel have been interrogated since the CBI took charge of the case a few months ago. An identification parade of the police personnel would also be conducted. Currently, three teams are probing the Muthanga incidents in addition to the inquiry into the alleged atrocities committed by the police during its operation to evict the Adivasis. Allegations relating to atrocities committed by the police on the tribals during the eviction-operation and the denial of medical treatment to the Adivasis after the incidents, harassment at hospitals and illegal confinement would also be looked into as per the terms of the inquiry. The CBI has already registered a First Information Report (FIR) in seven cases relating to the Muthanga incidents at the Ernakulam Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court. The Adivasi land rights agitation in January-February 2003 had resulted in the death of a tribal in police firing and a police constable. As many as 300 Adivasis who had taken part in the agitation, including the Adivasi Gothra Mahasabha chairperson, C.K.Janu, the Adivasi-Dalit Samara Samiti leader, M. Geethanandan, and T.K.Ramdas, Asianet stringer, Wayanad district, have so far been interrogated, sources said. for CHRO Mukundan C. Menon Secretary General CHRO 3, Rams' Cottage Ambalathumukku Pettah Thiruvananthapuram-695 024 (Ph.: 0471-2476262) |
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