By TwoCircles.net News Desk,
New Delhi: The All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat has expressed its dismay at the clean chit given by the National Human Rights Commission to the Delhi police in the Batla House encounter case.
AIMMM President Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan said that the hasty NHRC report seems to be solely based on police briefing and papers offered by the police which have been denied to relatives of the encounter victims.
“There is no indication that the commission bothered to contact relatives of the victims or residents of the area where the infamous encounter took place or the civil society organisations which conducted fact-finding about the event and expressed serious misgivings about the police version. Moreover, the NHRC did not deign to even acknowledge many representations made by the relatives of the victims sent to the commission by post,” Dr Khan said. Many locals, human rights activists and groups have already exposed loopholes in the police version of the encounter, which they believe was fake.
The NHRC, Dr Khan said, did not take sou moto notice of an event which shook millions of people and moved only when it was asked by the High Court to probe the matter in the face of the stout refusal of the Delhi Lt .Governor of Delhi to allow an enquiry. The NHRC even failed to take notice of the fact that the police flouted the commission’s own guidelines to conduct an enquiry in every case of killing by its officers.
“As such, we reject this suspect and one-sided report and stick to our demand for a proper judicial enquiry into the incident which led to the murder of two young students and to the arrest of dozens of young men ostensibly to justify and cover up the murder by people in khaki,” Dr Khan said.