By TwoCircles.net Staff reporter,
New Delhi: Is the UPA government trying to shield Intelligence Bureau officer IPS Rajendra Kumar because of his ‘role’ in the 2008 Batla House ‘encounter’ in Delhi? Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran reported on July 6 that the centre may be to shield Kumar as he is also privy to information on the 2008 Batla House encounter.
Rajendra Kumar was serving at the centre in September 2008 when the controversial Batla House ‘encounter’ took place in the Congress regime at Delhi’s Jamia nagar locality, also believed by the civil society to be fake.
Delhi Assembly elections are due later this year, the Jagran hence infers that the government might be playing safe as if the issue rakes up, people might demand re-investigation in the whole matter and the role of Rajendra Kumar in the whole operation. The Congress led UPA government maybe scared of opening the can of worms as the ‘facts’pertaining to the Batla House encounter too might come out, the paper says.
The whole operation was conducted by the Delhi Police, which comes under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The government has denied any probe in the Batla House ‘encounter’ giving the rationale that it will demoralize the security forces.
Rajendra Kumar was in the Gujarat unit of IB from 2001 to 2005. It is alleged that Narednra Modi and Kumar share cordial relations from the time Modi was in Delhi as General Secretary of the BJP and that on his insistence only Kumar was transferred to Gujarat, the paper adds.