Judicial Probe into the Batla House Encounter Now!

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To,
Dr. Manmohan Singh
The Prime Minister of India.
New Delhi

Dear Dr. Manmohan Singh,

A judicial inquiry report on the killings of four Muslim youths in Ahmedabad in June 2004 has revealed they were abducted and killed in a fake encounter by the Gujarat Police.

It was falsely claimed by the police that all four, including Ishrat Jehan - a girl student from Mumbai - belonged to a terrorist organisation and had plotted to murder Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Together with the case of Sheikh Sohrabuddin earlier, there is clear evidence piling up that the Gujarat government, over the last 8 years, has repeatedly staged fake encounters and murdered people in cold blood, branding them as terrorists.

However Narendra Modi or BJP governments are not alone when it comes to such encounters and minority witch-hunts in the name of fighting terrorism. Arbitrary killings and arrests of Muslim youth and their implication in false cases continue unabated across the country in state after state ruled by constituents of both the UPA and the NDA.

One such sordid encounter occurred last year on 19th September, when two young men were shot dead at Batla House by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police, who claimed they were operatives of the Indian Mujahedeen, which was allegedly responsible for the Delhi serial blasts.

Civil rights activists had pointed out several loopholes in the police version. The photographic evidence of the dead bodies clearly showed external injuriesa fact confirmed by the post mortem reports of the deceased. Who caused those injuries?

If indeed, as the Delhi Police claims, the boys fired upon the police party, and were killed in return fire, how was it that there were injury marks on the bodies? Further, bullet injuries on the forehead of 17-year-old Sajid indicates that he had been shot while being forced to squat or kneel.

It is to be noted that no magisterial enquiry was allowed into the encounter even though this is mandatorily required by law. The enquiry conducted later at the request of the Delhi High Court by the National Human Rights Commission can only be termed a farce, as it relied solely upon the version provided by the Delhi Policethe accused party! In its rush to pronounce the innocence of the Delhi Police, the NHRC refused to even maintain a fig leaf of impartiality and fairness.

In the light of recent revelations from Gujarat in the case of Ishrat Jehan we believe that it is only appropriate, ethical, and legally incumbent upon the UPA government to re-open the Batla House encounter case. We strongly feel that the truth must come out in the Batla House encounter in the interests of justice and as a deterrent to the politics of murder indulged in by sections of the Indian police.

We urge you, therefore, to immediately institute a Judicial Probe, under a sitting judge of the Supreme Court to verify the truth about the Batla House encounter.





3132 Signatures

  • Manisha Sethi
  • Arshad Amanullah
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  • Anurag Sethi
  • Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan
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    • I fully agree with the demand for a high level enquiry into each and every cold-blooded murder by police in the name of "encounter" including the Batla House crime which is a blot on the face of secular India
  • Satya Sivaraman
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    • The UPA has the blood on its hands in the Batla fake encounter case. Pointing fingers at Narendra Modi will not magically clean up the Congress 'panja'. Only impartial justice to the youth who have been wantonly killed or arrested will restore some credibility.
  • Dr.Farah Farooqi
  • Savad Rahman, Kerala
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  • Ashley Tellis
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    • Jail the criminal Narendra Modi
  • Dipankar Bhattacharya
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    • Encounter killings can have no place in a democracy. Stop encounter killings immediately, probe every incident and mete out exemplary punishment to all 'encounter specialists'.
  • Musab
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    • skepticism prevails
  • Feroze Mithiborwala
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    • We uneqivocally support the demnd for a Judicial probe into the Batla House Encounter.
  • SIDHEEQ HASSAN K.A. Sec. APCR
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    • I endorse it fully. And I demand the judicial probe of all the alleged encounters must be done.
  • Mahtab Alam,Coordinator, APCR
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    • Judicial Probe and Speedy Trial of the cases.
  • ajay bhardwaj
  • S. Anand
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  • Sukla Sen, EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity), Mumbai
  • Manzoor Ghori
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    • Must have judicial enquiry. Stop fake encouters. Justice for all.
  • V. Shankar
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    • I strongly condemn and demand judicial probe
  • salimullah khan
  • Nandini Chandra
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  • Mansoor Durrani
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    • JUST India. STRONG India.
  • Asker
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    • In a democratic country like India it should provide a majistatory enquiry for finding the truth behind encounter. Atleast for the batla house peoples, the minority peoples and Humanrights concerns, Government should do a positive approch for finding the truth as a public concern.
  • Faizan Haider Naqvi
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    • Sohrabuddin, Ishrat Jahan fake encounters are open now...many more are in disguise. It is high time , We need further probe in Batla House encounter , which is full of loopholes and loose police versions. Its HIGH TIME NOW ! OPEN IT !! OPEN IT !! OPEN IT !!
  • Dr. Mohamed Shahin
  • c.m.najeeb
    • Comments
    • its important that truth in the cases of police and administration harassment of individuals,whoever they are, come out, especially in a democratic society.
  • Shameer
  • Aariz Mohammed
    • Comments
    • Each Encounter is a cold blooded murder by the 'State'. In the case of Muslim Victims it has another angle of demonizing the entire community. Government of India and the Respected States involved in this crime by encouraging their Machinery should be brought to trail. Concern Champaigns, Institutions, International Bodies of Human Rights, Minority Rights and Democracy should act and build pressure on Government of India to change its hidden policy of Encounters. I endorse the petition and urge the signatories to buildup more pressure for 'Police Reforms' also.
  • Faraz Shere
  • Vellezhuthth
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  • N M Ahmed
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    • Security concerns for the citizens of a democratic nation cannot by itself be a reason to destroy the lives of its own citizens. The people of the country, the families of the victims deserve to know the truth about their loved ones. Nobody can be above the law regardless of their position and influence.
  • Rangnath Singh
  • shabnam hashmi
  • SAF RIZVI
    • Comments
    • TRUTH SHOULD SURFACE....
  • souvik ghoshal
  • Zafar Shaikh
  • Ahmed Sohaib
  • Syed Hassan Kazim
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    • There is no any value of democracy and secularism without justice and transparency.
  • Sridevi Panikkar
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  • Shuja K Gandhi
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    • Batla House Encounter too has lots of loopholes.
  • Arshad Ajmal
  • Kavita Krishnan
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  • Sk Faiyazuddin
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    • What is harm, if there is judicial enquiry,It is the right of a citizen to demand
  • Farhan
  • Zohra
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  • Sarmistha Roy
  • Yunus Mecheri
    • Comments
    • also we don't need 'probe' like 'encounter'...
  • Yasir Ali Mirza
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    • The criminals in the uniform wearing the mask of encounter especialists must be brought to justice.
  • M H Zulqarnian
    • Comments
    • If the govt thinks it has stong proofs against the victims of Batlla House encounter, then why is it afraid of the judicial enquiry?
  • SalamK
  • M A Rauf
    • Comments
    • peace must prevail, so should justice!