By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad,Feb. 22: First time in the country the AP High Court has taken up adjudication a matter involving disclosure of names of police personnel participated in encounter killings.A five member bench of the High court will commence hearing onthe issue from 3. Several experts in the field of civil and humanrights are expected to implead in the hearings.A non governmental organisation Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has filed an affidavit with a plea to implead as one of the respondent in the issue.The CHRI claimed that it has developed a considerable expertise and technical knowledge of comparative law and practise in area of policereforms. Its contribution has been acknowledged by the governmentand the Supreme Court.It informed the court that in course of its work, it came across scores ofcases of fake encounters, police excesses which indicate a discernablepattern of behaviour routed in lack of accountability showing disregard for the statutory procedures.It may be mentioned that the High court has constituted a five member bench after APCLC filed a petition seeking the disclosure of names ofthe police personnel who have participated in an encounter incident inPrakasam district in 2006. Borra Chinnaiah alias Madhav, CPI (Maoist)state secretary and seven others were killed in the encounter.
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