The Supreme Court will hear the matter on contents of the report submitted in a ‘sealed cover’ by the three-member Commission of Inquiry into the alleged encounter killing in December 2019 of four accused in the rape and murder of Disha at Chattanpally near Shadnagar, on Friday when the case was listed.
Senior IPS officer and former Police Commissioner of Cyberabad V C Sajjanar along with former DCP of Shamshabad zone Nyalakonda Prakash Reddy, and the then ACP of Shadnagar division V Surender on whose ‘instruction’ the police team opened fire in the wee hours of December 6, 2019, left for New Delhi on Thursday afternoon.
The three-member commission submitted the Report of the Inquiry Commission (in two volumes) in a sealed cover to the apex court on January 28. The Commission’s chairman and Supreme Court retired judge Justice V.S. Sirpurkar, members - Justice Rekha Sondur-Baldota and former director of CBI D.R. Karthikeyan, had held the hearings for 47 days between August 21 and November 15 last year and examined 57 witnesses. The apex court appointed the Commission of Inquiry to inquire into the circumstances under which the four accused — Mohammed Arif, Chintakunta Chennakeshavulu, Jolu Shiva, and Jollu Naveen, all natives of Narayanpet district — were killed in an alleged ‘exchange of fire’ while they were in police custody.
