Bastar police
allegedly kill an undertrial in a fake encounter after branding him as Naxal in
Jagdalpur.
Police claimed
that, Arjun Kashyap, was a wanted Naxal and was having bounty of Rs 3 lkah on
his head.
However, the
Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group, known as 'JagLAG' who is fighting the case of
Kashyap has alleged that he was intentionally killed in fake encounter.
30-year-old
Arjun Kashyap hails from Chandmeta. He was arrested by police when he was 17 on
the accusation of his involvement in ambulance blast case in which five CRPF
jawan were killed.
Advocate
Ishakhandel of JagLAG said that after the arrest, he was presented in CJM court
in Jagdalpur where police had claimed that he is 30-year-old and his father name
is Kodi.
On the contrary,
his school certificates proofs that he was a school going boy of 17 years and
his father’s name is Sulo.
However, with
the efforts of JagLAG, the case was transferred to Juvenile Board and he was
sent to juvenile home. Later, he was granted bail due to lack of evidences
against him.
Infact, the
entire chargesheet did not bear his name anywhere only a mention of 30-year-old
Arjun was there that too in a confession document of co-accused.
Finally, on
December 30, 2015, Arjun was granted bail by the Juvenile Board. Post his bail,
he kept coming for hearing of the case.
The next hearing
date was fixed on August 31, 2016, but before he could attend that he was
allegedly assassinated in fake encounter by Bastar police. It is horrific,
added Isha.
Kamal Shukla,
the head of Sanyukt Patrakar Sangarsh Surkasha Samiti said, the killing of the
innocent tribal guy in a fake encounter under the supervision of IG SRP Kalluri
is very much heart rendering and termed it as cold-blooded murder.
He demanded fair
probe in the case. The documents provided to Pradesh 18 testifies that Arjun
was undertrial guy before Juvenile Board.
However, after the encounter SP
Jagdalpur Rajendra Dash claimed that Arjun was a notorious Maoist and Jan
Militia Commander of Chandmeta and killed by joint team of DRG and STF in Tulsi
Dongri.
He also claimed huge cache of arms,
ammunition and material of daily use recovered from his possession.
