By TwoCircles.net news desk,
New Delhi: The All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat has expressed its pain and dismay at the unwarranted and hasty rejection by the Supreme Court of India of the appeal against Delhi High Court order, thereby rejecting the request for a judicial enquiry into the police encounter at Batla House on 19 September 2008.
The AIMMM President Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan said that the apex court’s description of the victims of Batla House encounter as “criminals” and its statement that the enquiry into the episode will affect the morale of the police are baffling since no enquiry or trial has been held to date to establish those victims as “criminals” and there are umpteen examples of police personnel’s imprisonment and dismissal in similar cases of encounter as well as other crimes committed by the police. “Hence the claim of the authorities that a probe into Batla House will affect the morale of the police only confirms our belief that the whole drama was premeditated and that the killing of the two young students was simple murder with the sole aim of terrorising the Muslim community in the name of fighting ‘terrorism’,” Dr Khan said.
He further said: “Such behaviour on the part of our highest constitutional bodies only shakes the trust of the ordinary citizen in our democratic and legal system and this broken trust in turn leads the common man to take the law into his/her hand. It is still high time for the Indian State to overcome its hubris and order a judicial enquiry into the Batla House encounter by a sitting judge of a high court or the Supreme Court to establish the facts regarding this sordid affair.”