Amid the criticism of a possible ‘Fake’ encounter and curbing human rights, Andhra Pradesh government had released the CCTV footage of Seshachalam forest captured couple of hours before the encounter. In the video, it can be seen the so called Tamil workers trying to chop off Red Sandal trees and smuggle them.
Chandrababu Naidu after coming to power, has taken the Red Sandal smuggling very seriously. There were some Night vision CCTV cameras installed in the Seshachalam forest with which the Special Task Force is able to get a tipoff regarding the smugglers.
However the Red Sandal smugglers nearly 100 in number, outnumbered the task force police and hurled sickles, axes and stones on the Police. Finally the Task Force Police had to resort to firing killing 20 of them. All of them belong to Tamil Nadu and there is a huge hue and cry regarding that in the neighbouring state. With the release of this CCTV footage, it is clear that Forest officials or Special Task Force has no other malicious intentions behind the encounter.
