Hyderabad, Oct. 23 -- The previous Assistant Commissioner of Police from Shadnagar, Vasam Surender informed the Supreme Court appointed Commission probing the alleged encounter of the Disha rape-murder case that he was threatened by officials working for the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

Surender's statements were recorded in a 15-page-report by the NHRC before being submitted to the Commission. When asked about the same, he remarked that while he signed the statements, he was threatened by the NHRC workers that they would "report against him and get him suspended".

Surender further alleged that his statements were doctored and not represented truthfully. When asked about any enmity between him or his department and the NHRC,...