Semmaram Encounter Killings Fact Finding Report2
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Tamil Research Institution (TRI)<br />
Details of the family of the deceased:<br />
S.No. Name Age Caste<br />
Educational<br />
Qualification<br />
Occupation Relationship<br />
1. Muniammal 30 Vanniyar - - Wife<br />
2. Rohith 7 Vanniyar - - Son<br />
3. Surendran 4 Vanniyar - - Son<br />
I, Muniammal, wife of the deceased Sasikumar, S/o. Annamalai who was shot dead by<br />
the Andhra Police, do hereby sincerely state and solemnly affirm as follows:<br />
Muniamal<br />
W/o. Sasikumar (Late),<br />
Kaliamman Kovil Street,<br />
Vettagiripalayam Village,<br />
Arjunapuram Post<br />
Polur Taluk,<br />
Tiruvannamalai District<br />
I resided at the above mentioned address with my late husband Sasikumar and<br />
children Rohith (7) and Surendran (4). We belong to the Hindu Vanniyar community. We<br />
have one acre of agricultural holdings. My parents-in-law and us did agriculture on this land.<br />
My husband used to go for painting work inside and outside our village. He used to get<br />
Rs.400/- as wages for that per day. Sometimes when he did not get such work, he would go<br />
outside the village, saying that he was going for ‘supplier’ work. We were running the<br />
household with this income.<br />
In these circumstances, my husband went along with one Murugan @ Beeman who<br />
lives near our house on 06.04.2015 (Monday) at about 12.00 in the noon saying that they<br />
were going for painting work. Since I had gone for agricultural labour, I could not speak to<br />
him. We were unperturbed thinking that he had gone for work as usual.<br />
The next day, on 07.04.2015, we watched news on television where it was being<br />
reported that 20 labourers who had gone to cut trees to Andhra had been shot dead by the<br />
Andhra Police. They had mentioned just that the deceased were from Tiruvannamalai and<br />
Dharmapuri districts.<br />
That evening at about 7.00 PM policemen from Kannamangalam Police Station came<br />
to our village and asked if anyone from our village had gone outside the village for work. We<br />
said no. Then they showed us photos saying that 20 Tamils who had gone to cut trees in<br />
Andhra had been shot dead by the Andhra Police. But we could not identify anyone from the<br />
photos. Then the policemen left. Only later at about 1.00 AM when the DSP of Arani came<br />
with larger sized photographs we could identify my husband’s body. Murugan’s family who<br />
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