Batla House encounter: HC rejects plea for judicial inquiry

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday accepted the findings of NHRC giving clean chit to Delhi Police in the controversial Batla House encounter case and declined to institute a judicial probe into the gun-battle in which two suspected terrorists and a police officer were killed.

A Bench headed by Chief Justice A P Shah rejected the plea of an NGO,’Act Now For Harmony and Democracy’,seeking judicial inquiry in the case on the ground that NHRC has failed to conduct proper investigation and its finding that it

is not a fake encounter is not correct. NHRC had on July 22 given a clean chit to the Delhi

Police in the encounter case in which two suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists and Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma,an encounter specialist,were killed on September 19,last year. NHRC had said there was no human rights violation by the police.