Udhayanidhi demands high-level judicial inquiry into killing of three Tamils by Karnataka forest officials

Udhayanidhi Stalin, the Leader of the Opposition, called for a high-level judicial inquiry into the killing of three Tamil men – Antonysamy, John Rose Peter, and Kumar – by officials of the Karnataka State Forest Department. He made this demand in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, stating that a post-mortem report clearly showed that the men had been brutally murdered.

According to the post-mortem, the men had been tortured before being shot at close range, their ribs having been broken. Udhayanidhi questioned whether the Tamil Nadu government had written to Karnataka for an explanation and whether Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay had condemned the incident when he met his Karnataka counterpart, D.K.

Shivakumar. He also urged the government to take steps to provide justice and financial and legal assistance to the families of the victims. Speaker J.C.P. Prabhakar stated that the House would have an in-depth discussion once the ministers had satisfactory replies, as the Law Minister and Forest Minister had already commented on the matter.