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Nailing a lie
FRONTLINE
|November 25, 2016
The Central Bureau of Investigation’s reports pin the 2011 violence in Dantewada on the police and other security forces.
THE CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION’S (CBI) reports on the burning of more than 250 houses in Tadmetla, Morpalli and Timmapuram in Chhattisgarh between March 11 and 16, 2011, have demolished the police version of the events. The final reports on the violence in these villages during so-called “combing operations” in Dantewada by Central and State security forces were submitted to the Court of Special Magistrate for the CBI, Shantanu Kumar Deshlahre, in Raipur on October 17, 2016.
The Supreme Court had ordered a CBI inquiry into the violence on a petition filed by the academic and activist Nandini Sundar. The CBI’s reports were made public on October 21 when a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court ordered that they be shared with the petitioner, Professor Nandini Sundar, and senior counsel Ashok Desai, who was representing her. Contrary to the local police’s claims that houses in Timmapuram, Tadmetla and Morpalli were burnt down by fleeing naxalites, the CBI found that security forces including the police were culpable.
This story is from the November 25, 2016 edition of FRONTLINE.
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