The Supreme Court today(September 26) directed that the dead body of Katha Ramchandra Reddy, who was killed in an encounter in Chhattisgarh as an alleged Maoist commander, must be preserved in a mortuary till the Chhattisgarh High Court decides the writ petition filed by his son against the encounter.

The son, Raja Chandra, alleges that it was a fake encounter. He approached the Supreme Court, saying that the High Court had refused to grant an urgent hearing for his petition before the closure for Puja vacations.

The bench comprising Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan disposed of the petition with the direction to preserve the body till the High Court decided the matter. The bench requested the High Court to prioritise the hearing. It clarified that the contentions are l

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