Chhattisgarh deaths: NHRC seeks report

The CRPF and Chhattisgarh government have been asked to explain the sequence of events leading to the encounter and reply to the accusations that many innocent villagers were killed. They have been given four weeks to reply.

The state has already ordered a judicial inquiry.

In his complaint,Bansal sought a probe by an independent agency. He requested that the central and state governments be asked to pay compensation to the next of kin of the innocent villagers who were killed.

Incidentally,as per NHRC guidelines,state governments must send detailed reports of all encounter deaths to the NHRC within 48 hours of the incidents.

Sonia briefed on anti-Naxal op
New Delhi: In the backdrop of the blame game between the Centre and Chhattisgarh government over the June 27 anti-Naxal operation,Congress president Sonia Gandhi was on Tuesday briefed by party general secretary B K Hariprasad about the incident. I briefed the Congress president on the subject, Hariprasad said,adding that a report by a 12-member fact-finding team of the party has already been submitted to her.