Telangana encounter: HC says no to fresh autopsy of terror suspect

April 28, 2015 23:16

The Hyderabad high court today rejected the plea for the second postmortem filed by the father of a terror suspect, who was killed along with four others, in an alleged encounter in Nalgonda district of Telangana earlier this month.

Justice Vilas Afzalpurkar, who went through the counter affidavit filed by Superintendent of Police, Nalgonda, and the case record, found that there was nothing wrong in the way the first autopsy was conducted on Viquar Ahmed and that a second postmortem could not be ordered in a routine manner.

He observed that police had followed the due procedure in conducting the inquiry ordered by the concerned judicial authorities and that the petitioner--Mohammed Ahmed--did not dispute the first postmortem nor sought a second postmortem when police handed over Viquar's body to him.

A special investigation team, set up by the government, is mandated to investigate the incident and also the lapses, if any, on the part of police.

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