NEW DELHI: BJP has slammed Congress leaders for questioning the veracity of Batla House encounter and said the court verdict today will go a long way in boosting the morale of security personnel fighting terror.
“It was a bizarre situation. While the government honoured late inspector M C Sharma for bravery, senior Congress leaders and functionaries of the ruling dispensation had raised questions on the veracity of the encounter,” BJP Deputy Leader in the Rajya Sabha Ravi Shankar Prasad said here.
Prasad said with the court convicting lone suspected IM operative Shahzad Ahmed for the crime, “the soul of inspector Sharma, killed in the encounter, will now rest in peace”.
The shootout had sparked a controversy with Congress leader Digvijay Singh claiming that it was fake, but his party had swiftly distanced itself from his remarks.
The Samjwadi Party too had demanded a judicial probe but the then Home Minister P Chidambaram asserted that the encounter was genuine and there was no scope to reopen the matter. -PTI
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