Kandhamal firing: NCSC to discuss issue in Delhi today
New Delhi, July 21: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) called a meeting on Thursday here to discuss the Kandhmal firing which claimed lives of five people.
Odisha Home secretary Asit Tripathy, DGP KB Singh and SC/ST secretary Surendra Kumar have been invited to attend the meeting, reported the Odisha TV.
National
Commission
for
Scheduled
Castes
(NCSC)
chairman
Dr
PL
Punia
visited
the
Gumudumaha
village
and
met
kin
of
the
victims
who
were
killed
during
anti-Maoist
operation
on
July
8.
Punia
promised
actions
against
those
involved
in
the
incident.
Five villagers, including three women and a child, were killed during the anti-Maoists operation by Special Operation Group (SOG) personnel at Malapanga forest in Kandhamal district.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had directed an SIT Team of State Human Rights Protection Cell (HRPC) to probe the incident.
Odisha: Officials did not allow us to meet victims: villagers to SIT
A seven member SIT team led by ADG, Human Rights Protection Cell, Mahendra Pratap, reached the village ten days after the incident.
Villagers were questioned on the details of the incident like, how and when they had gone to Baliguda for receiving their MGNREGS dues, when the firing occurred, whether it was a cross firing or one sided and how and when the injured were taken from the spot for treatment.
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