The Central Information Commission on Monday directed the Delhi Police to disclose crucial documents in the investigation of the September 19, 2008 encounter at Batla House in Jamia Nagar.

The Special Cell’s encounter atL-18, Batla House left two serial blasts suspects — Mohammed Atif Amin and Sajid — and Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma dead.

A division bench of Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi today gave the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) 10 days to part with the FIR (number 208/08) lodged by Special Cell on the encounter, and the postmortem reports of Sharma and the two suspects.

The Crime Branch is probing the encounter.

The Commission, which had called for the documents for closed-doors inspection on March 5, though, agreed to the police suggestion that names of officers who were part of the encounter, and that of doctors from AIIMS who conducted the autopsies, should be deleted from copies provided to RTI applicant Prashant Bhushan. A Supreme Court lawyer, Bhushan is representing Zia-ur-Rehman, one of the suspects of the serial blasts last September.

Zia is son of the caretaker of the L-18 flat, where the suspected militants had allegedly taken shelter before and after the serial blasts in Delhi on September 13, 2008.

“In the FIR, we found names of the investigating team led by S-I Mohan Chand Sharma described together with the team that visited Batla House at 11 am on the day of encounter,” the Bench observed. It said the FIR also mentions the name of the Special Cell officer who lodged it, while the postmortem reports name AIIMS doctors who conducted the autopsy.

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