By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
New Delhi: In an apparent outcome of the revelations about the September 19 Batla House encounter or maybe given the approaching Lok Sabha elections or a mix of both, the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre has given positive indication about a judicial enquiry into encounter.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh on Tuesday, first time commenting on the event since it took place four months back, supported a judicial enquiry into the encounter, saying that in democracies it is always better to make things clear. He was responding to a question on judicial enquiry into the Batla House encounter, while talking to pressmen after the annual conference of the National Commission for Minorities in Delhi.
Asked if a judicial probe will clear matters, Arjun Singh reportedly said: “Why not?” He made it clear that he was not alone in the government thinking on this line when he said the Prime Minister is also thinking over the issue.
The Batla House encounter took place six days after the September 13 serial blasts in Delhi, and the police shot dead two allegedly suspected terrorists, claiming they were involved in the Delhi serial blasts.
Media, human rights activists and locals have not bought the police version of the story and demanded judicial enquiry into it. But the government has so far rejected any such enquiry into the encounter.