[Reader-list] NHRC gives clean chit to Delhi police in Batla encounter case

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

NHRC gives clean chit to Delhi police in Batla encounter case
*New Delhi: (Indian Express)*
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  National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday gave clean chit to Delhi
police in Batla House encounter case.

"We are clearly of the opinion that having regard to the material placed
before us, it cannot be said that there has been any violation of human
rights by action of the police", the NHRC said in its 30 page report on the
encounter in September last year.

The action taken by police in which two persons died "is fully protected by
law," said the NHRC.

NHRC today filed its enquiry report before the Delhi High Court in a sealed
cover. A Bench headed by Chief Justice A P Shah took the report on record
and asked the Commission to put the contents of the report on NHRC's
website.

The court also directed the Commission to give copy of the report to an NGO
on whose plea it had directed the enquiry.

The High Court had on May 21 asked the NHRC to complete within two months
its enquiry into the controversial encounter in which two suspected Indian
Mujahideen terrorists and a police officer were killed.

 Encounter specialist Delhi Police Inspector M C Sharma was killed during
the police action against suspected terrorists on September 19, 2008 in the
aftermath of serial blasts in Batla House locality in the national capital.

The court had directed the enquiry on a plea of the NGO, Act Now For Harmony
and Democracy, that questioned the police version of the encounter.

Two suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists who were killed were identified
as Atif Amin and Mohd Sajid. Two other IM suspects Mohd Saif and Zeeshan
were arrested from the Batla House area.
The incident took place a week after serial blasts rocked the capital
killing 26 people and injuring 13 others.