A division bench comprising of Chief Justice Dilip B Bhosale and justice S V Bhatt of the Hyderabad High Court on Monday directed the state home department to submit case details along with the statements of father and also the person who first witnessed the incident and the dying declaration of the shaik Mustafa, by June 8.
HC order comes pertaining to suspicious killing of 11-year-old Shaik Mustafa in Army Garrison campus at Mehdipatnam in the city.
The PIL case was filed by a city advocate ‘Gulam Rabbani’, seeking a direction to the state government to hand over the case to the CBI for an unbiased probe into the incident.
Except for registering a criminal case, no steps were taken by the city police to arrest the army personnel, the petitioner said.
On Oct 8 last year, Shaik Mustafauddin, a resident of Siddique Nagar near Mehdipatnam, succumbed to burn injuries. The boy, in his dying declaration, had clearly affirmed that two Army personnel were directly involved in setting him ablaze.
According to Govt counsel Venugopal, “SIT which was constituted to probe the case has so far examined 124 witnesses in the case”. However, none of the witnesses, including parents of the deceased, have given any clue about involvement of Army personnel in the incident, he added.
The counsel said that earlier the police suspected two of the army jawans allegedly involved in the case and among the two one had committed suicide and the other has been suffering from neurological disorder.