By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad July 20: The AP High Court on Friday issued notices to the director-general of police, principal secretary (home), and city police Among others to be served the notices are the Greyhounds inspector-general and the Hyderabad district collector.
A division bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice G. S Singhvi and Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy issued the notices to the officials while admitting a petition filed by Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee of India president Lateef Mohammed Khan.
He told the court that the city police had turned down seven times, his complaint against the police officers involved in the firing. He alleged that the city police did not take minimum precautions while opening fire. The petitioner said that the police had fired with self-loading rifles (SLRs) and urged the court to direct the State government to order a CBI probe into the police firing.
The court asked the petitioner’s counsel Bojja Tarakam to withdraw a request for post-mortem and inquest reports and the case dairy. The court observed that those records were not necessary at this juncture and posted the case for hearing to August 24. Director-general of police M.A. Basith told this correspondent, “We will send our replies to the High Court as soon as we receive the notices.”
The State Human Rights Commission had earlier issued notices to the city police and sought a detailed report on the police firing. The Hyderabad revenue divisional officer is also conducting an inquiry into episode. The State government has already transferred additional commissioner of police, crimes, Rajiv Trivedi and south zone deputy police commissioner Kantha Rao after a row over the police firing. Earlier Falaknuma inspector P. Sudhakar and Moghulpura inspector Ramachandra Reddy were transferred.
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