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New Delhi, July. 13 (PTI): The family of FCI official P C Ram today demanded a CBI probe into the gunbattle between police and ULFA in which he was killed, claiming the operation was aimed at eliminating him and not the militants who had kidnapped him.
Ram's son Prabin Gautam claimed photographs and video from the scene of yesterday's gunbattle suggested that his father was "brutally" murdered after he shouted to police that he was the kidnapped FCI official.
"It was a planned operation aimed at eliminating my father. Police knew he was in the house but went ahead with the operation. If they really wanted to save him, they could have. But their target was my father and not the ULFA," Prabin told PTI.
He said the family wanted a CBI inquiry into the gunbattle at Borkapanitenga village in Assam yesterday as it felt that it was a "pre-planned, purposeful mission to esure that Ram is killed". Two ULFA militants were also killed in the gunbattle.
Prabin also said the family is conducting another autopsy of Ram's body to "prove" that he was "deliberately" killed. "They have not provided us the post-mortem report. He was hit by bullets in the head and other parts of the body and we don't think this was accidental," he claimed.
"Assam Police faced embarrassment when they went to town saying that Ram's body was found on June 30 but ULFA said he was alive. And we think the embarrassment the police faced in this case was the reason for his killing," he claimed.
July 12: Kidnapped FCI official P C Ram died on Thursday after being caught in crossfire between a police team and a group of ULFA cadres in Assam's Kamrup district. (READ THE FULL STORY)
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