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Chittoor killings: FIR against STF personnel, AP cops tells HC
Hyderabad, Apr 15 (IBNS): A First Information Report (FIR) has been filed for murder and abduction against unknown Special Task Force policemen for killing 20 alleged red sander smugglers on April 7 in Chhittor district, police told Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday.
The FIR was registered following a complaint by one of the deceased wife.
The petitioner has also appealed for re-post mortem of bodies of those killed, said reports.
The matter will now be taken up on Thursday.
In an alleged encounter, 20 alleged red sandalwood smugglers were killed by the Andhra Pradesh Police inside the forests near Tirupati in Chittoor district.
Locals had staged protest in Chittoor and Chennai over the encounter of the smugglers.
According to the Andhra Pradesh authorities, those killed were notorious smugglers of red sandalwood and were killed after they attacked a police team.
All the men were from neighbouring Tamil Nadu.
The two witnesses claimed that they survived because they were not among the villagers taken away by the Andhra police.
Andhra Pradesh forest minister B Gopala Krishna Reddy had said there is evidence that those who were killed were "habitual offenders" in trading red sandalwood illegally.
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