Kabir encounter: Court turns down bail plea of ANF personnel

Shringeri, 18 May 2014: The Additional Sessions Court has turned down the bail plea of the Anti-Naxal Force (ANF) sleuth due to whose bullet, Kabir, a cattle trader from Krishnapura, was killed at Tanigodu check-post on April 19.

 

Kabir

 

What exactly had happened?

Kabir and four associates were travelling in a pick-up truck transporting cattle when they were stopped at a forest check-post for a routine check at around 3.30 am on April 19 by a police team also comprising members of the ANF which operates in the Western Ghats region.

 

Kabir was shot by ANF constable Naveen G Naik after he allegedly tried to run away. Two of his associates who managed to run away have provided contradictory statements and alleged the ANF personnel fired without provocation. The ANF has claimed its personnel mistook Kabir for a Naxalite because he tried to flee when confronted.

 

Constable Naik, a 2012 President’s gallantry medal winner for a Naxal encounter, fired around nine rounds from his AK-47, including the three that hit Kabir. He was arrested on April 25 after Umar Farooq, who was in the truck with Kabir, filed a complaint.