Daijiworld News Network - Udupi (GA)

Udupi, Sep 5: After almost 34 months, the much controversial and talked about case of Edu encounter came for hearing before the District Sessions court here on Monday September 4.

 On the first day, the two persons who have been very much linked with the case, Yashodha, an alleged Naxalite who had survived in the encounter with injuries and S Murugan, the then district superintendent of police attended the court proceedings.  The sources said that the other police personnel whose name is involved in the case, Ashokan will appear before the court on Tuesday.

It could be recalled that a police team led by SP Murugan and DCIB inspector Ashokan had ambushed a house of one Ramappa Poojary at Edu near Karkala here under the pretext that some suspected Naxalites were hiding inside the said house.

At first the police had shot dead sentry Parvati alias Sumathi, a resident of Koppa.  After entering the house another Naxalite Hajima alias Usha too had been shot dead while two other Naxalites Anand and Vishnu had managed to escape during the siege.  However, the police had managed to nab Yashodha, a resident of Kalasa near Moodigere after she failed to escape owing to injuries.

While the police had claimed that it was an encounter, many human rights organizations and thinkers had condemned the attack and termed it as murder.  Police however, maintained that, the Naxalite had started firing first instead of surrendering.

Yashodha, who was arrested then, was remanded for judicial custody later.  She had recently been released on bail.  Police had also filed a case against Hajima, Yashodha, Vishnu and Anand in this regard.