Rights activist disputes encounter claim

The post-mortem examination report on the death of Velmurugan, a suspected Maoist, goes against the encounter claim of the police, C.P. Rasheed, secretary of the Janakeeya Manushyavakasa Prasthanam, said on Wednesday. Velmurugan, 32, a suspected member of Kabanidalam-2 of the Western Ghats Special Zone Committee of the proscribed Communist Party of India (Maoist), was killed in an alleged police encounter on the Banasura mountains in Wayanad on November 3 last year.