The two FIRs filed by forest officials on the “encounter” near Tirupati on April 7 claim that the 20 alleged “smugglers” killed by Andhra Police and forest guards were chopping and carrying logs of red sanders in the Seshachalam forest the previous night. However, phone records of at least four of the victims, examined contradicted Andra Police claims, The Indian Express.

The shocking revelations expose the Call Detail Record (CDR) reveals that two of them were travelling for most of that night, and arrived at the encounter spot Chandragiri Mandal near Rangampet village only at around 2.30 am on April 7, barely three hours before the “encounter”.

The records also show that a third victim had reached the Tamil Nadu-Andhra border, over 100 km from the encounter site, at around 5.30 pm on April 6, while the cellphone of the fourth remained active till at least 7.55 pm on April 10. All four were shot dead on April 7, between 5.30 am and 6 am, by a group of forest guards and members of a police task force formed to prevent smuggling of red sanders, according to the FIRs.

The call records, however, support the version of the three witnesses in the case who told National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) that they were picked up by members of the task force and forest guards in plain clothes, the previous day. The CDRs were of the same cellphone numbers that police used to identify the victims of the 20 killed, 11 had registered cellphone numbers, according to investigators.

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The power centre lobby the nexus of media ,corporates and politicians who sells illegal red sanders not even touched but only the tools or projected as tools of cutters been made scape goat in the eyes of public as a measure of eye wash quipped a retired DGP rank tamilnadu cadre Police official.