NHRC members, after hearing the submissions made by representatives of civil society and the state government in Hyderabad, directed that the mobile numbers of all police and forest officials involved in the encounter, and the medico-legal reports of the police personnel injured in the action be submitted to the commission.
NHRC chairperson KG Balakrishnan asked the Andhra Pradesh government to furnish details of wireless communication relating to the incident.
Balakrishnan said the version of witnesses could be recorded before a competent authority even in Tamil Nadu, from where the 20 people hailed.
People's Watch, a human rights NGO, submitted that witnesses were not feeling safe in Andhra Pradesh and demanded that they be provided security.
The commission refused to accept the reasoning given by AP Police that judicial inquiry was required only in case of deaths in custody while in this incident, the woodcutters were killed in police firing done in self-defence. The legal advisor of AP Police said a magisterial enquiry was conducted immediately after the incident.
The commission also directed the investigating agency to facilitate the recording of evidence of the three eyewitnesses who have already deposed before the NHRC.
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