Batla House encounter: HC rejects judicial inquiry

The Delhi High Court todayaccepted the findings of NHRC giving clean chit to DelhiPolice in the controversial Batla House encounter case anddeclined to institute a judicial probe into the gun-battle inwhich two suspected terrorists and a police officer werekilled.

A Bench headed by Chief Justice A P Shah rejected theplea of an NGO, 'Act Now For Harmony and Democracy', seekingjudicial inquiry in the case on the ground that NHRC hasfailed to conduct proper investigation and its finding that itis not a fake encounter is not correct.

NHRC had on July 22 given a clean chit to the DelhiPolice in the encounter case in which two suspected IndianMujahideen terrorists and Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, anencounter specialist, were killed on September 19, last year.

NHRC had said there was no human rights violation bythe police.

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