The Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association has adopted 12 resolutions at the all-India convention at Jamia Millia Islamia on ‘State, Democracy and Terrorism’ to mark one year of the Batla House encounter.

According to the statement issued by the Association, the house resolved to strengthen the movement for the demand of an independent and fair probe into the Batla House encounter. The teachers’ body also rejected the “partisan and biased inquiry by the NHRC”, which “refused to take cognizance of the points raised by the civil rights activists”.

They demanded speedy justice for the accused and the arrested youth. “This house notes with great alarm the communally biased torture and mistreatment of those accused in the terror-related cases in various jails across the country. In particular, the brutal violence in Sabarmati Central Jail on March 27, 2009, and the violence that SIMI accused were subjected to by jail authorities in Jaipur on September 21 on Eid,” the statement read.

It sought immediate punishment for the police personnel responsible for the extra judicial killing of Chungkham Shanjit and Rabina Devi in July 2009 in Manipur.

The Association demanded the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from the states of Northeast and Jammu and Kashmir, “which has bred an atmosphere of impunity” and asked authorities to adhere to the NHRC guidelines pertaining to encounter killings. Taking a jab at the Delhi Police’s Special Cell, the Association demanded punishment for “those who implicated innocents as terrorists, as in the case where two young men were implicated as operatives of Al Badar”.