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1] New Indian Express, January 14, 2005, Friday Six cops suspended for lock-up death TIRUPATI: In a bizarre incident, policemen attached to Madanapalle I town police station tortured a suspect to death in a double murder case and dumped his body in a valley near Horsley Hills. A circle inspector, a SI and four constables have been placed under suspension. SP VV Gopalakrishna said that it was a case of lock up death. ??????The incident happened at about 5 in the morning,??™??™ he added. The victim has been identified as 40-year-old Venkata Chalapthy of Madanapalle. According to sources, Nemali Lakshminarayana and his wife Padmavati were murdered in Madanapalle on March 29, 2004. Police suspected the involvement of Chalapathy, his wife Vijayalakshmi and her brother Srinivasulu. Over the last nine months, the trio were summoned on numerous occasions and ??????interrogated??™??™ them. Yesterday, the three were summoned at about 3 pm. The police let off Vijayalakshmi and Srinivasulu at 6 pm while assuring that Chalapathy would be released later. When her husband failed to reach home, Vijayalakshmi returned to the police station at 5 a.m. only to be told that they let him off at around 4 a.m. In the afternoon, a body was discovered on the way to Horsely Hills and word spread like a wild fire. Fearing the worst, Vijayalakshmi reached the spot and identified the body as that of Chalapathi??™s. Enquiries by this website??™s newspaper revealed that Chalapathy died in the custody around 9 p.m. on Wednesday. The police took his body to the hillocks and dumped it there. After conducting preliminary inquiry, the SP suspended Madanapalle circle inspector of police V Ravikumar, sub-inspector of police P Mallikarjuna Gupta and four other constables. http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEA20050113232735&Page=A&Title=Southern+News+%2D+Andhra+Pradesh&Topic=0& ------------------------------------------------------------ The Hindu, January 14, 2005, Friday Death in custody: CI, SI suspended By Our Special Correspondent TIRUPATI. Jan. 13. In an alleged case of lock-up death in Madanapalle, 100 km from here, a Circle Inspector and a Sub-Inspector were today suspended and a full-scale investigation was ordered to bring out the truth. According to information reaching here, the victim, Chalapathi (35), was picked up from Basinikonda and brought to Madanapalle One-Town police station last night for interrogation in a murder for gain case in which an old couple was done to death in their farmhouse last year. Chalapathi was reportedly working as a gardener in the farmhouse. His body was found lying in the shrubs off Horsley Hills ghat road. There was mild tension in the town, with the victim's relatives and locals who saw the police picking him up in the village suspecting it to be a clear case of `custodial death'. Meanwhile, the Chittoor SP, M.V. Gopalakrishna, at the instance of the DIG, Anantapur, placed under suspension the CI, Ravikumar, and the SI, Mallikharjuna Gupta. The situation was said to be under control, even as police pickets continued at vulnerable spots. http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/14/stories/2005011405920400.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2] Rediff.com, January 15, 2005, Saturday Killings endanger AP govt-Naxal talks Syed Amin Jafri in Hyderabad The peace talks between the Naxalites and Andhra Pradesh government is in danger of breaking down following the death of six Maoists in shoot-outs with the police in two districts in the state. The police have sounded a red alert all over the state after the killings, which, they claimed, were in self-defence. While three Maoists were killed in Prakasam district, three others were shot dead in Mahbubnagar. Reacting to the incidents, Communist Party of India (Maoist) state secretary Ramakrishna, in a letter, a copy of which was released to the press in Hyderabad, said the killings have made the possibility of the peace talks continuing very remote. He blamed the state government for trying to scuttle the peace atmosphere. The recent incidents prove that it is impossible to resolve the burning problems of the people through peaceful methods of dialogue, Ramakrishna said. "We will retaliate the armed action of the police with arms itself," he said. The Naxal leader appealed to all 'supporters of democracy' to strengthen the hands of the movement as in the present atmosphere it was futile to wait for negotiations to solve the peoples problems. The Naxalites and the state government have been observing a ceasefire in the state for some months now. The first round of peace talks was held last October. Giving details of the Prakasam district incident, Superintendent of Police Mahesh Chandra Ludda said Naxalites opened fire on a police party, which was on its way to Peddachima village from Chintala village after receiving information that Maoists were moving about in the area. "Our personnel warned them not to fire and to surrender. Instead, they continued firing. Our police party fired in self-defence. The exchange of fire continued for 15 minutes. Some Naxalites fled the scene. The police party found the bodies of three Naxalites - one female and two males - after the firing ceased. Five weapons and five kitbags and a claymore mine were recovered from the site," the SP told rediff.com over phone. The incident, near Chintala in Dornala mandal, occurred between 1300 IST and 1400 IST, he said. The second incident occurred between 1400 IST and 1430 IST at Bukkalingayapalli village, under Siddapur police limits, in Mahbubnagar district. Superintendent of Police Vikram Singh Mann said a police party was on its way to the village to inquire into reports of extortions by the Maoists. On seeing the police party, the Naxalites started firing on it and the police returned fire. In the exchange, three Maoists, including a woman, were killed, he told rediff.com over phone. The police are yet to establish the identity of the six slain Naxalites. But they are suspected to be members of the local armed squad (dalam) of the Communist Party of India [Maoist]. Earlier, on Friday night, Naxalites belonging to CPI [Marxist-Leninist] [Janashakti group] shot dead the Congress sarpanch of Rudrangi village in Chandurthi mandal in Karimnagar district. Armed Naxalites barged into the house of Ganga Raj Lingaiah and forcibly took him to the village outskirts. Later, they pumped three bullets into him, killing him on the spot. The Janashakti Naxalites, in a leaflet left behind at the spot, claimed that the killing was in retaliation for the killing of their comrade in a 'fake encounter' by the police in Warangal district a few days ago. They warned they would kill 100 persons for every Naxalite killed in fake counters and declared that they would target Congress leaders with landmines. With PTI inputs http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/15ap.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3] Rediff.com/PTI, January 15, 2005, Saturday Bangladeshi settlers to get 'Quit India' notices Security arrangements have been tightened ahead of a drive to serve 'Quit India' notices to 1,551 identified Bangladeshi infiltrators living in ten villages in Orissa's Kendrapara district, official sources said. The serving of notices will start from Ramnagar village, District Collector Hemant Sharma said. Additional police forces have been deployed to thwart possible resistance from the settlers, he said. Sharma said special teams comprising revenue officials and school headmasters have been constituted to assist the police in the exercise. The teams would serve the notices on the identified settlers. Once these notices are signed by the person, he/she would be required to leave the country within 30 days, official sources said. http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/15oris.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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