IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION NO : 21071 of 2000 Between: Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committees Rep. by President M.Ratnamala, D/o. M.Satyanaryana Reddy, R/o. Hyderabad. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The S.H.O.Tadicherla P.S. Karimnagar District. 2 The Officer on Special Duty (Gray Hounds), Karimnagar District. 3 The Civil Surgeon, Civil Hospital, Manthani, Karimnagar District. 4 The Civil Surgeon, Civil Surgeon, Peddapalli,Civil Hospital, Karimnagar District 5 The Superintendent of Police, Karimnagar District. 6 The Director General and Inspector General of Police, Lakdikapool, Hyderabad 7 The Home Secretary, Department of Home, Secretariat, Hyderabad. ....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue a writ order of direction more particularly more in the nature of Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents herein to preserve the dead bodies of 7 women naxalites who were killed in an encounter which took place on 1-11-2000 at12-45PM in the limits of Tadecherla P.S.Koyyur Forest, Karimnagar Dist, and the same bodies may be shifted to N.T.P.C.Ramagundam, Karimnagar District or Osmania General Hospital, Hyderabad and after identification of the dead bodies the same may be handed over to the deceased relatives or friends and direct the respondents herein to conduct re-postmortem examination by the forensic expert doctors one must be women be women Doctor and Direct the Respondent here in No.1 to register Crime U/s.302 IPC. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.V.RAGHUNATH Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR HOME The Court made the following: ORDER: Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee filed the instant writ petition seeking a writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to preserve the dead bodies of seven women naxalites, who were killed in an encounter with Police. This Court in W.P.M.P.No.26788 of 2000, dated 03.11.2000, passed an elaborate order directing the Director General of Police to preserve the dead bodies of three naxalites, as by that date the postmortem was conducted on four dead bodies and the corps were handed over to their respective relatives. In that view of the interim orders, nothing survives in the writ petition. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed as infructuous. No costs. ____________ (V.V.S.RAO, J) 15.06.2005 vs To 1 The Station House Officer, Tadicherla P.S., Karimnagar District. 2 The Officer on Special Duty(Gray Hounds), Karimnagar District. 3 The Civil Surgeon, Civil Hospital Manthani Karimnagar District. 4 The Civil Surgeon, Civil Surgeon, Peddapalli,Civil Hospital, Karimnagar District 5 The Superintendent of Police, Karimnagar District. 6 The Director General and Inspector General of Police, Lakdikapool, Hyderabad 7 The Secretary, Department of Home, Secretariat, Hyderabad 8 Two CCs to the G.P for Home, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad(O.U.T). 9 2 CD copies