Semmaram Encounter Killings Fact Finding Report2

Tamil Research Institution (TRI)
in – law and the panchayat representatives went to Kannamangalam Police station. They
showed the ration card and voter’s id and the police have taken the Xerox copy of the
identity cards and gave them a letter. They reached Thiruppathi at 6.p.m in the evening.
They met the Tamil Nadu police who were sitting under a shamiana tent and showed
the documents received from Kannamangalam police station. The police men gave them
the FIR copy and death certificate to them. Then the Andra Pradesh police showed the body
after seeing the documents. The body was already finished with post mortem and covered
by white cloth. The police showed the face of the body and gave the body with another
one’s body named Mr. Munusamy. They were sending the bodies in an ambulance came
from Tamil Nadu to Thiruppathi.
My husband’s body came to our village at 3.00 a.m approximately. I touched my
husband’s body and felt that there was one leg missing. They had given the intestines as a
bundle separately. His eyes were come out and so I suspected about my husband’s death.
I remembered what Mr. Venkatesh told me and I understood that the police arrested,
tortured, hacked legs and killed my husband. There was a protest held on the killing of Mr.
Sasikumar and Mr. Murugan. So we did not bury my husband’s body and kept it with
suspicion. We tried to lift the body to the protesting place but the police stopped us to take
the body. So, we kept the body in our house.
Since Mrs. Muniammal, w/o Mr. Sasikumar filed a case in High court of Chennai, the
judge ordered to keep the bodies in Government Hospital, Thiruvannamaai. So, my
husband’s body, and the bodies of Mahendran, Munusamy, Sasikumar, Murugan and
Murthy were taken to the Government hospital, Thiruvannamalai.
Then the order for post mortem from Hyderabad court, the doctors from Hyderabad
done re-post mortem and gave the body on 19.04.2015. We buried my husband’s body in
Vettakipalayam burial ground.
We have received 3 lakh rupees from Government of Tamil Nadu, 1 lakh from
Jeyalalitha, one lakh from Karunanithi and 50,000/ from Vijayakanth.
She finished her statement with angry that the Tamil Nadu government should not
stop its action by giving money and should take necessary actions to severely punish the
Andra Pradesh police who captured, tortured and killed my husband and dramatized that my
husband was cutting red sander trees.
7.17 The details of deceased Mr. Murugan, S/o. Mr. Manickam who was arrested,
tortured and killed by the Andhra Pradesh Special Task Force.
Name of the deceased : Mr. Murugan, S/O. Mr. Manickam
Age : 40
Caste
: Hindu – Vanniar
Educational qualification : 5 th standard
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