Chhattisgarh ‘encounter’ probe indicts security forces: No firing by villagers, no proof they were Maoists

[Note: a BJP government was in power in Chhattisgarh at the time of the Bastar fake encounter.]

'In a damning indictment of the security forces, a one-member judicial commission set up to probe an alleged encounter in which 17 people, including six minors, were killed in Sarkeguda, in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, in June 2012, has noted the following findings: there was no firing by the villagers; there is no evidence to suggest they were Maoists; the villagers were assaulted and killed from close quarters; security forces may have fired “in panic”; and one of the victims was shot in the morning, several hours after the encounter at night...'