
Rights activist disputes encounter claim
The Hindu
The post-mortem examination report on the death of Velmurugan, a suspected Maoist, goes against the encounter claim of the police, C.P. Rasheed, secretary of the Janakeeya Manushyavakasa Prasthanam, said on Wednesday.
Velmurugan, 32, a suspected member of Kabanidalam-2 of the Western Ghats Special Zone Committee of the proscribed Communist Party of India (Maoist), was killed in an alleged police encounter on the Banasura mountains in Wayanad on November 3 last year.
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