New Delhi, January 15: Commenting over the alleged fake encounter of the maoist leader, the Supreme Court today said that it cannot allow ‘a republic to kill its own children’.
The apex court sought a response of the Centre and the Andhra Pradesh government on a plea for judicial probe into the killings of top Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar and journalist Hemchandra Pandey in an alleged fake encounter six months ago.
“We cannot allow the republic killing its own children,” a bench of justices Aftab Alam and R M Lodha said while issuing notices to the Centre and and the state government on a petition filed by social activist Swami Agnivesh and Pandey’s 30-year-old widow Babita.
Seeking the two governments’ replies to the petition within six weeks, the bench said, “We hope there will be an answer. There will be a good and convincing answer.”
“The government will have to answer so many questions,” it said.
–Agencies–