By TCN News,
Bhopal: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has expressed deep shock and dismay over the Batla House shootout case verdict wherein a Delhi court has found accused Shahzad Ahmad guilty on charges of murder of Inspector MC Sharma, who led a raid on a flat in the area where terror suspects were present. The SDPI reiterated its stand that the Batla House encounter was fake and still demanded for a high level judicial enquiry into the incident.
SDPI national president Mr. A. Sayeed in a statement lamented that the Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri in his judgement took no cognizance of the questions raised about the genuineness of the encounter and the court relied heavily on the police version alone while most of legal procedure were given a go by.
Mr. Sayeed said the demand for judicial inquiry into the matter by human right activists and others was rejected by the Union and state governments saying that such an inquiry will demoralise Delhi Police. It meant that the government already believed that the boys were terrorist and conviction of Shahzad as such was a foregone conclusion, he added.
He welcomed that the court has found no evidence to prove that Shahzad had any link with Indian Mujahedeen or any other terror outfit. The Additional Sessions Judge seemed to have agreed to this as the prosecution failed to provide any clinching evidence.