By TCN News,
New Delhi: The alleged lone survivor in the Batla House encounter case, believed by civil rights activists to be fake, has refuted Delhi Police claims and denied all charges today.
Shahzad Ahmed, Special Cell of the Delhi Police, claims was one of the occupants in the L 18 house in the Batla House, where the alleged encounter took place on September 19, 2008. He today appeared in front of the Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri for recording of his statement.
News agency PTI, quoted Shazad as saying, “I am innocent and have been falsely implicated in this case.”
According to PTI, he has denied that he was in the flat at the time of the encounter or that he fired on police. He also told the Additional Sessions Judge that he was picked up by the ATS Lucknow from his house in Azamgarh and that his family had also lodged a complaint for kidnapping.
Shahzad has also alleged that the police forcibly obtained his signature and that he had made no disclosure statement in front of the police.
In 2008 on 19th September, on 4th floor of L-18, Batla House in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar area, two youths of Azamgarh were killed in a shootout, which was later claimed to be an encounter by special cell of Delhi police. In this shootout, one of the officers of Delhi police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma also lost his life. However, from the very first day Human and Civil Rights’ organistions and activists are demanding an independent judicial enquiry into the shootout. The post-mortem report of the deceased also pointed towards the encounter being a fake one.