The first major public demand that bodies of encounter victims be handed over to families came during the killings of Gulam Rasool and Vijay Prasad. Ten months later, Puli Anjayya and Bhagyalakshmi were captured in Bangalore, brought to Jangaon, and declared dead in a fake encounter. A turning point in this inhuman history came in September 1994, with the fake encounter killings of Chintala Venkataswamy and Padma. That very day, in the fake encounter at Rachakonda hills, revolutionary Marayya was killed. Out of this legacy, in 2002, the Association of Martyrs’ Families and Friends (Amarula Bandhu-Mitrula Sangham) was born.