By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission has given clean chit to the Delhi Police in the Batla House encounter case in which allegedly two suspected terrorists were killed and a Delhi Police inspector got bullet injuries which he later succumbed to.
In its 30-page report the NHRC said the police did not violate any human rights as it resorted to firing in their defence.
“There can be no manner of doubt that firing was first resorted to by the occupants of the room on the police party. If the police party had first resorted to firing, the occupants of the room namely Mohd. Atif Ameen and Mohd. Sajid after receiving injuries from service weapons would have immediately fallen down and would not at all have been in any position to fire upon the police party. The fact that Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma and HC Balwant Singh received gun shot injuries leads to the only inference that firing was first resorted to by occupants of the room,” says the report echoing the police version which scores of human and civil rights groups and activists have been countering on circumstantial evidences.
The NHRC said that as the police did not violate any law the commission cannot take any action and for it the case is closed.
“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 the action of the police party. Since there was no violation of human rights, nothing further is required to be done by this Commission and the case is closed,” sums up the report submitted on July 20.
In the September 19, 2008 encounter at House No. L-18 in Jamia Nagar’s Batla House area in Delhi, two terror suspects Mohd. Atif Ameen and Mohd. Sajid were gunned down by the police. The police later made them accused in the Delhi serial blasts.
For full NHRC report click http://nhrc.nic.in/