Semmaram Encounter Killings Fact Finding Report2
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(8608631976) but his phone was switched off. Later that afternoon, at about 2.00 PM two<br />
policemen in civilian attire came to our house and asked where Munusamy was and I told<br />
them that he had gone for supplier work and they left. Later at about 6.00 PM the same<br />
policemen came again to our house and showed us the photograph of a dead body. There<br />
were burn marks on the skin all over the body seen in that photo. Also, the eyes were<br />
bulging out. I said that it was not my husband. Then they showed the shirt that he was<br />
wearing when he left home. Only then I realized that it was my husband.<br />
On the next day, 08.04.2015, my relatives were asked to come to Kannamangalam<br />
Police Station and they were asked to bring their Ration Cards and Voter’s Identification<br />
Card when they came. We took the identity cards and went to the Police Station. There they<br />
got signatures and Ration Cards and Voter’s Identification Cards and after that my younger<br />
brother Murali and brother-in-law Raja went to Tirupati. They demanded that my husband’s<br />
body be shown to them. My brother Murali later told me that they refused.<br />
Later at about 7.00 PM that night the officials present there got the copy of the Ration<br />
Card from my relatives and gave my husband’s death certificate and FIR. After that they took<br />
them to show my husband’s body. They had done post-mortem on the body before showing<br />
it to them and the body was bundled up in cloth. The police uncovered and showed his face<br />
alone to them. The eyes were bulging out and the teeth were broken. Then the body was<br />
brought to our village at about 12.00 in the night by Tamilnadu Ambulance.<br />
Since we had suspicions on the death of my husband, we had kept the body without<br />
cremating or burying it. Kannamangalam Police exerted pressure on us to cremate the body.<br />
But we did not do so. Two other persons from Vettagiripalayam had also been killed by the<br />
Andhra Police who had killed my husband. Since a road roko had been staged with their<br />
bodies, the Panchayat Members told us that the body should not be disposed until the Govt.<br />
responded to this. So we kept the body at home all that day.<br />
7.11 Details of Venkatesan who was shot dead by the Police of the Andhra Pradesh<br />
Government:<br />
Name of the deceased : Venkatesan<br />
Age : 25<br />
Marital Status<br />
: Married<br />
Caste<br />
: Hindu Malaiyali<br />
Educational Qualification : 5 th Standard<br />
Occupation<br />
: Agriculture, Coolie work, Masonry work<br />
Address : 3 rd Ward, Arasanatham Village, Kalasappadi Post,<br />
Paappireddipatti Post, Dhamapuri District<br />
Contact No. : -<br />
81<br />
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