[Reader-list] IM mail aimed to vitiate campaign against Batla encounter: JTSA

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IM mail aimed to vitiate campaign against Batla encounter: JTSA

New Delhi: Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association has raised questions
over timing of the Indian Mujahideen email sent to media on September
19 after the Jama Masjid firing. JTSA said the mail was aimed at
vitiating the campaign against the Batla House encounter.
“It is surely a matter of surprise that this email resurrecting the
spectre of IM should come at a time when there is a reluctant
acknowledgement of Hindutva terror networks even within mainstream
media and political establishment. Further, that the creators of the
mail chose to send it on the second anniversary of the Batla House
‘encounter—just when the trials in the Delhi blasts case have begun in
the sessions court. It appears almost that the mail was sent with the
express purpose of vitiating the campaign against the Batla House
‘encounter’ and the ongoing trials,” JTSA said in a statement.

The group has termed as bad policing the failure of the Delhi Police
to trace the Jama Masjid shooters and sender of the mail but deciding
to use the mail as evidence against Delhi blasts accused.

“A week after the shootout at Jama Masjid when motorcycle-borne
assailants shot at two foreign nationals, and the receipt of a dubious
mail purportedly from IM claiming revenge for the killing of Atif and
Sajid, the Delhi Police now intend to use the email as evidence
against those arrested for Delhi blasts.

This is yet another example of bad policing indulged in by the Delhi
Police routinely. Unable to trace the assailants even days after the
shoot out—which incidentally occurred practically next to a police
station—unable even to trace the sender of the email, clueless and
directionless, the Delhi Police hopes to cover up its inefficiencies
by flogging the IM horse.”