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Batla House encounter genuine, no re-opening case: Chidambaram
Thursday January 12, 2012 07:34:54 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Home
Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday said the September 2008 Batla
House gun battle with suspected terrorists was genuine and there
was "no scope for re-opening the matter".
"The Batla House encounter was genuine; there is no scope for
reopening the matter," Chidambaram said during a briefing of the
Group of Ministers (GOM) on media here.
Chidambaram's statement comes a day after Congress general
secretary Digvijay Singh repeated his view that the shootout may
be fake.
"The prime minister and home minister were of the view that the
encounter was true. That's why I did not not press it (the demand
for a new probe into the gunfight) further," Singh had told
mediapersons before an election rally addressed by Rahul Gandhi at
Azamgarh.
Two suspected militants, hailing from Azamgarh, were killed in the
shootout with police at Batla House in Okhla locality of Delhi Sep
19, 2008. A Delhi Police inspector M.K. Sharma was also killed in
the incident.
Chidambaram said Singh's statement was his personal view. "This
has been his view from the beginning ... we have a difference in
opinion," he said.
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