Muthanga: judicial probe demanded

  • 27/02/2003

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

The Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Bizay Sonkar Shastri, has demanded a judicial inquiry into the police firing on tribals at Muthanga in Wayanad. The chairman, who along with a membre of the Commission, C. Chellappan, visited some tribal hamlets of Attappady on his way to Muthanga, told presspersons that they would hold a siting at the Kalpetta Collectorate after visiting Muthanga and take evidence from people on the firing and the incidents that followed it.