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A Division Bench of the High Court (HC) comprising Justices C. Manavendranath Roy and Tuhin Kumar Gedela heard a Habeas Corpus petition filed by the kin of CPI (Maoist) cardinal committee members Thippiri Tirupati alias Devuji and Malla Raji Reddy connected Thursday (November 20) and posted it for further proceeding connected November 21.
Devuji’s member Gangadhar and Raji Reddy’s girl Snehalatha approached the HC claiming that the 2 Maoists are nether amerciable constabulary detention and they should beryllium produced earlier the court. Appearing for the petitioners, advocates U.D. Jai Bhima Rao, G. Rohith and D. Suresh Kumar argued that the CPI Maoist leaders were detained by A.P. Police connected November 18 and they indispensable beryllium produced earlier the HC, different they could beryllium subjected to harm. They submitted to the tribunal that the Additional DGP announced the detention of the Maoists successful a property conference.
On being informed by the peculiar authorities pleader acrophobic that neither Tirupati nor Raji Reddy was detained, the tribunal told the petitioners to supply impervious of the reports/videos of constabulary statements successful that regard. It was stated that determination is simply a superior and contiguous menace to the beingness and bodily integrity of the detenues astatine the hands of the constabulary fixed the caller and profoundly troubling signifier of custodial violations and alleged other - judicial killings successful the discourse of anti-Maoist operations.
The circumstances successful which Maoists Gajarla Ravi, Aruna and Anju were killed successful Maredumilli forests connected June 18, 2025, and the latest incidents suggest that these are ‘custodial killings’, the advocates pointed out. The basal contention is that the detention of Tirupati and Raji Reddy and not producing them earlier the jurisdictional magistrate wrong the mandated 24 hours is simply a usurpation of Articles 21 and 22 of the Constitution.
