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from our village. He also said, “It seems that the names of the persons who went from our
village are mentioned in the newspaper. Come let’s go to Arur Main Road and see what the
matter is.” Immediately my husband’s younger brother Sekar went along with him. Arur
police took them to Tirupati.
That evening at about 4.00 PM The DSP of Arur, the Village Administrative Officer
and the RDO also went with our people (two persons for every deceased) to Tirupati. All of
them including my brother-in-law reached the Govt. Hospital in Lower Tirupati at about 12.00
in the night. There the District Collector of Tiruvallur was seated under a Shamiana put up
near the post-mortem room / mortuary.
Our people first went to the officials who were there and introduced themselves. They
showed the photographs that they had with them to our relatives. My brother-in-law later told
me that when he saw the photograph of my husband, the face seemed as if it had been
injured. Then they showed my husband’s body to our relatives but post-mortem had already
been done on the body.
Then the bodies were taken from there at about 1.00 AM in four Ambulances that
had gone from Tamil Nadu. The policemen and officials from Tamil Nadu, who had
accompanied our people, came in a Jeep that followed the Ambulances.
The next day, 09.04.2015, at about 11.00 AM my husband’s body was brought to our
village. When I saw my husband’s body it was covered in a zipped-up plastic cover. When I
went nearer, I noticed that his lower jaw was torn. His mouth was open and all his teeth were
missing. His eyes were open and there was blood in them. We cried aloud on seeing this
condition of my husband.
Then when we were about to do the final rites for my husband as per our custom, the
police prevented us from doing anything and forced us to cremate the body. So we cremated
my husband’s dead body at about 1.00 PM that afternoon, on our land.
Only because there were no rains for the past one year, we were unable to do
agriculture and went to other places for work. Even if my husband had done any offence,
they could have put him in prison. Now we are struggling with his loss. Case should be filed
against the Andhra Police for murder and action should be taken also against the Tamil
Nadu Police who forced us to cremate the body although as per our custom we bury our
deceased and thereby justice should be done for my deceased husband.
7.12 Details of Lakshmanan, S/o. Theerthagiri who was shot dead by the Police of the
Andhra Pradesh Government:
Name of the deceased : Lakshmanan, S/o. Theerthagiri
Age : 25
Marital Status
: Unmarried
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