While his father’s body being transported over 120 km from Narayanpur to Jagdalpur, both in Chhattisgarh, following a Supreme Court directive, didn’t exactly bring him closure, 33-year-old Raja Chandra said it was an important milestone in his quest for justice.

“I just want to know the truth about how my father got killed,” he tells The Indian Express over telephone.

Chandra’s father Katha Ramachandra Reddy, a member of the central committee of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) leader, was allegedly killed in an encounter with the Chhattisgarh police in Narayanpur district’s Abujhmad on September 22. Story continues below this ad

A researcher at the NALSAR University of Law in Telangana, Chandra suspects that his father was “killed in a fake encounter”. An old famil

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