TIRUVANNAMALAI: In accordance with the directive of the two-member bench of the Hyderabad High Court, a medical team comprising three doctors from the Osmania Medical College (OMC), Hyderabad, conducted fresh postmortems on the bodies of six victims gunned down in an alleged encounter between them and the Red Sanders Anti Smuggling Task Force working in a joint operation with Forest officials and the Andhra Pradesh police. The entire proceeding of the fresh postmortems that lasted almost five hours, conducted in the Government Tiruvannamalai Medical College Hospital on Saturday, (after separate petitions were filed by the families of the victims), was videographed, as per the direction of the Hyderabad High Court.
The High Court had deemed that the results of the postmortem will not be divulged and will be included in a report based on the overall findings that will be prepared by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and submitted to the President, the Supreme Court, the Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh Governments, High Court of Hyderabad with or without the explanation of the AP police in this encounter on April 23.
The hospital campus, particularly the mortuary, was brought under tight security, said Collector A Gnanasekaran. The medical team, led by Professor of Forensics, Dr Mohammed Taqiuddin Khan, began the re-examination of the six bodies at about 2.10 pm which continued till 7 pm. The two other members of the team are Dr Ahijeet Subedar and Dr Ramana Murthi.
Nine doctors attached to the Government Hospital in Tirupathi, who conducted the postmortem examination on the bodies of the 20 victims were allowed to be observers then.
The team first performed the postmortem on the body of Sasi Kumar (34). It was followed by the postmortems on the bodies of K Perumal (37), Munusamy (35), G Murugan (38), Moorthy (38) and S Mahendran (22). The grief-stricken families and relatives of the victims were waiting on the premises of the hospital. They were not allowed near the mortuary.
Meanwhile, in Tirupati, the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) said that it would submit its report to the Union Tribal Commission as well as the NHRC within a week over the Seshachalam encounter on April 7.
NCST Vice-chairman Ravi Thakur, conducted his enquiry with the police, revenue and forest officials on Saturday. He, however, declined to disclose his personal observations on the encounter. “We will submit our report to the Union Tribal Commission within a week and share the same with the NHRC,” he said.
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