Bodies of slain undertrials shifted to hospital

Hyderabad, April 8 , 2015: The bodies of five terror accused gunned down by police in Telangana's Nalgonda district were shifted to a hospital on Wednesday. Police said the bodies would be handed over to their relatives after autopsy at government-run MGM Hospital in Warangal town. The bodies were first brought to Jangaon but were shifted to Warangal late Tuesday night for conducting the autopsy. The delay was due to the legal opinion taken by the police. Though they were killed in the limits of the Alair police station in Nalgonda district, the bodies were brought to Warangal as they were undertrial prisoners of Warangal Central Jail. Viquar Ahmed alias Viquaruddin and four others were shot dead by police, which alleged that the accused tried to snatch weapons from policemen and flee while they were being brought to Hyderabad from Warangal Central Jail. However, the families of the accused have termed the encounter as "fake" and "stage-managed" by the police. They are demanding that the policemen involved be booked for murder. Viquar Ahmed's father Mohammed Ahmed has refused to take his body till the government orders probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The families and their counsel said the youth were killed as the cases against them were reaching a final stage and the police were afraid that the judgment may go against them. They found many holes in the police claim that the youth who were chained tried to attack policemen. Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) and human rights groups have termed the police action as "vengeance" for the killing four policemen by terror operatives in Nalgonda district last week. Twelve hours after the incident, the police on Tuesday night issued a statement, giving details of what it calls "exchange of fire".