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Tuesday, Jun 29, 2004

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High Court seeks documents in Killi case

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI, JUNE 28 . A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court today directed the State Government to produce all the documents, including the reports relating to the inquiries conducted into the Killi incident. The Bench comprising Justice K. A. Abdul Gafoor and Justice P. R. Raman asked the Government pleader to make available documents including the State Human Rights Commission order and the State Women's Commission report by July 12.

The directives were passed when four writ petitions relating to the incident came up before the court. While some of the writ petitions sought a CBI probe, the others challenged the Government order reinstating the police officers suspended in connection with the incident.

The Government had earlier submitted that the Additional Director General of Police (Crimes) was investigating the cases registered against the police officers while the Additional DGP (Operations) was conducting the disciplinary proceedings against the officers. They had now been posted to non-sensitive areas. Besides, the interim compensation had been awarded to the victims as ordered by the State Human Rights Commission. The Government would also recover the compensation from the officers responsible for the atrocities as directed by the Commission, the Government had earlier submitted. The alleged police excesses took place on October 5, 2003. The State Government had suspended the then Thiruvananthapuram Rural SP, Ashok Yadav, the Nedumangad Dy. SP, S. Jogesh, the Kattakada CI, Jayaraj, the Aryanad CI, Radhakrishna Pillai, the Malayankeezhu SI, Muhammed Hussain, the Nedumangad SI, Pramod Kumar, the Vithura SI, Radhakrishnan Nair and the Neyyar dam SI, Muraleedharan, on December 10 last on the basis of the State Human Rights Commission's report that inquired into the incident.

According to the petitions seeking a CBI probe, in the conciliatory talks that followed the attack on the police, those involved had volunteered to surrender and the police had agreed to settle the matter in a peaceful manner with the cooperation of the local people. But despite this, the police had allegedly violated human rights, tortured innocent children and women who were sleeping in their houses and committed grave offences and atrocities. The police action disclosed a criminal conspiracy and constituted the offence of dacoity (Section 391, IPC), the petitions said.

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