Semmaram Encounter Killings Fact Finding Report2

Tamil Research Institution (TRI)
Minister of Andhra Pradesh Mr. Chandrababu Naidu and the DGP Mr. J.V. Ramudu. The
Chief Minister was present in Tirupati on April 6 th along with Union Minister Mr. Venkaiah
Naidu and is stated to have personally given a green signal to the execution of the 20
people. (Refer to Annexure 14 for English translation of the article published in the
magazine ‘Nakeeran’.) If the telephone calls of all these officials are tracked the truth behind
the alleged order of the Chief Minister of AP will be revealed.
3.BRIEF STATEMENT OF EYE WITNESSES
Brief Facts of the Statement of Paramatha Sekhar
i) Paramatha Sekhar, of the Vanniyar community, was on a bus on the 6 th April with
his relative Mahendran, and saw two other men of his village, Murthy and
Munuswamy, also on it. He realised they were going to Tirupati when the
conductor called out the name. About an hour out of Tiruthani, a man in mufti
boarded the bus and forcibly took Mahendran down from it. Sekhar was sitting
between Mahendran and a woman, and believes he was not also taken because
the abductor thought he was with her, not with Mahendran;
ii)
iii)
When he looked back a few minutes after he saw that Murthy and Munuswamy
were also missing, and had clearly also been forcibly taken off the bus;
Sekhar was terrified, got off the bus at the next stop, and made his way back to
his village, reaching late past mid night on the 6 th April;
Brief Facts of the Statement of Sitherimalai Balachandran
iv)
Sitherimalai Balachandran, from the Malayali Scheduled Tribes, travelled with
seven men from his village on the 6 th April, met an agent named Palani, but was
separated from his group at the Arcot bus stand, when he and an employee of
the agent went off for a drink; they followed in the next bus;
v) Late in the evening of the 6 th one of his relatives, Sivakumar, who was with
Palani, told him that the agent had gone off somewhere, and asked them to wait;
vi)
vii)
Palani’s man (with Balachandran) then understood from a conversation with his
employer that he had been arrested; “this man” and Balachandran then left
Nagariputhur in Andhra Pradesh to return to Tamil Nadu to escape being
arrested;
When Balachandran tried ringing Sivakumar on his mobile there was now no
answer. But around 11:30 PM, he got a call from the same phone, in which a
person he did not know and who would not identify himself told him that his
friends were in Tirupati, where he should come immediately to fetch them;
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