New Delhi:
Senior advocate Harish Salve representing the Andhra Pradesh government told the Supreme Court today that he will persuade the Andhra government to hand over the probe into the killing of top Naxalite leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad and journalist Hemchandra Pandey to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Pandey's wife and Activist Swami Agnivesh have petitioned the Supreme Court seeking judicial probe into the alleged fake encounter.
Earlier the Supreme Court expressed displeasure over the incident and had remarked "we cannot allow the republic killing its own children."
Azad, a senior member of banned CPI (Maoist) Central Committee, and Pandey, who was dubbed by the police as a Maoist, were killed in an alleged fake encounter on the intervening night of July 1-2, 2010, in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh.
The court had sought answers from the State and the Centre on the killings.
Pandey's wife and Activist Swami Agnivesh have petitioned the Supreme Court seeking judicial probe into the alleged fake encounter.
Earlier the Supreme Court expressed displeasure over the incident and had remarked "we cannot allow the republic killing its own children."
Azad, a senior member of banned CPI (Maoist) Central Committee, and Pandey, who was dubbed by the police as a Maoist, were killed in an alleged fake encounter on the intervening night of July 1-2, 2010, in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh.
The court had sought answers from the State and the Centre on the killings.
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