Ghulam Rasool (Telugu journalist)

Ghulam Rasool was a journalist working for the Telugu newspaper Udayam and was killed in 1992 in what the Andhra Pradesh police claimed as an encounter with Naxalites.[1]

Incident

Ghulam Rasool, a reporter with the Telugu daily, Udayam, and his friend Vijaya Prasada Rao had a track record for being Naxalite sympathisers. The police claim the two were killed in an encounter when they were holding a meeting in an abandoned house in Ranga Reddy district's Masjidguda village.[1]

Scepticism

But the state journalists had a different version that Rasool and Rao were picked up by some police officers in a jeep and taken to a police station. They died during the third degree torture to which they were subjected.[1]

Arundhati Roy's tribute

While delivering a memorial lecture on Ghulam Rasool, Arundhati Roy said in 1996 that the murder of Gulam Rasool and Vijayprasada Rao in a fake encounter is part oflarge scale killing of unarmed citizens in the name of ""curbing extremism" in the state where as many as 106 people were killed in these encounters in 1991 alone.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Crying foul". India Today. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  2. ↑ "SURVIVAL AND RIGHT TO INFORMATION". mkss.org. Retrieved December 14, 2013.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, July 24, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.