Batla House encounter
Without raising any suspicions for the intentions of law enforcement authorities, a number of well-meaning commentators and politicians have also expressed concern over the Batla House encounterin Jamia Nagar.
EVER SINCE Batla House encounter in New Delhi’s Jamia Nagar, critics have been claiming that the two men killed by the police were innocent students, not Indian Mujahideen terrorists.
Without raising any suspicions for the intentions of law enforcement authorities, a number of well-meaning commentators and politicians have also expressed concern over the encounter. The jinn of encounter is failing to die. The recent postmortem reports of the two suspected militants killed in the encounter have been obtained by Jamia Millia Islamia final year student Afroz Alam Sahil from National Human Rights Commission and forensic and medical experts. These reports have brought back the haunted memories of the incident.
According to the four page reports, the alleged terrorists suffered injuries by a blunt object apart from gunshot wounds. Eight of the 10 bullet entries on the body of Atif are on the back side, in the region below the shoulders and at the back of the chest. The postmortem report of the other alleged militant Sajid reveals that two wounds on his body were not caused by a firearm. In technical language these injuries were ‘antemortem’ in nature. It implies that these caused before death.
The members of JSTA (Jamia Solidarity Teachers’s Association) is asking one relevant question:
I am sure Delhi Police would shed some light in due course of time about the report.
