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The family of the accused gunned down by police in Telangana’s Nalgonda district have termed the encounter as “fake” and “stage-managed” . They are demanding that the policemen involved be booked for murder. Viquar Ahmed’s father Mohammed Ahmed has refused to take his body till the government orders probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The families and their counsel said the youth were killed as the cases against them were reaching a final stage and the police were afraid that the judgment may go against them. They found many holes in the police claim that the youth who were chained tried to attack policemen.
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) and human rights groups have termed the police action as “vengeance” for the killing four policemen by terror operatives in Nalgonda district last week.
Twelve hours after the incident, the police on Tuesday night issued a statement, giving details of what it calls “exchange of fire”.
According to the statement, the five undertrial prisoners were being brought in Eicher mini bus. On the outskirts of Tangutur village, Viquar demanded to stop the vehicle for natural call. He got down from the bus along with the escort staff and boarded the bus after relieving himself.
“After entering the vehicle, he snatched the Insas weapon of the escort police constable and opened fire. The remaining four accused also tried to snatch weapons overpowering the police shouting slogans. It is learnt the escort party fired in self defence resulting in the death of Viquar and other four accused,” said the statement.
The slain under trial prisoners are Viquar Ahmed, 33, Syed Amajd Ali, 27, Mohammed Zakir, 35, residents of Hyderabad. Mohammed Haneef, 37, was a resident of Ahmedabad, Gujarat while Izhar Khan, 33, was from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
Police say that they had formed a radical fundamentalist organsiation called Tahreek Galba-e-Islam (TGI) to carry out various terror activities. They were involved in killing of two policemen in Hyderabad and one in Gujarat between 2007 and 2010.