Nalgonda encounter: HC says no to fresh autopsy of Viquar

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court 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 (SIT), set up by the government, is mandated to investigate the incident and also the lapses, if any, on the part of police. SIT, if deems fit to go for the second autopsy, may request the magistrate for the same. Five undertrials, including Viquar, were killed in Nalgonda district when they were brought to a court here from a prison in Warangal on April 7. Viquar's father had earlier also sought registration of an FIR against the police personnel responsible for the killings and transfer of the case to CBI.