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New Delhi:
Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Group (JTSG) and Association for
Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) have summarily rejected the
National Human Right Commission (NHRC) enquiry report on the
Batla House encounter, which gave a clean chit to the Delhi Police.
"Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Group rejects the NHRC’s report on the
Batla House ‘encounter’, which gives a clean chit to the Delhi
Police", said the statement issued by the group yesterday.
In the 30-page report the NHRC said that no human right was violated
in the Batla encounter and that the police opened fire only in their
self defence. The state human rights body said that on the basis of
the “material placed before us, it cannot be said that there has
been any violation of human rights by the actions of police”.
Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Group (JTSG) and Association for
Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) sought to know about the material on which the NHRC based its finding as the rights body did not hear the families
of those killed in the encounter, the neighbors and civil and human
rights organizations.
“Indeed, we would like to know what material was placed before the
NHRC for inspection. The NHRC enquiry into the case, one will
remember, came far too late, and that too at the insistence of the
High Court. For months, the NHRC refused to take any initiative to
independently enquire into the ‘encounter’ which several civil
rights groups, including Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Group (JTSG), deemed suspect. The NHRC enquiry was
carried out in an inexplicably secret manner; even applications by
residents of Azamgarh to depose before the Commission were not
acknowledged by the NHRC. If people of Azamgarh, the family members
of the accused and killed boys, civil rights groups who have been
working and campaigning on the issue were never heard by the
Commission, we wonder what was the material placed before the
Commission,” Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Group (JTSG) leaders Manisha Sethi, Adeel Mehdi and Tanweer
Fazal said in a statement.
The group has been in the front to expose the loopholes in the
police version about the encounter. It staged several protests and
at times had to face the brunt of the police.
“It appears that NHRC, like the Lieutenant Governor prior to this,
was satisfied by hearing the police version alone. The Jamia
Teachers’ Solidarity Group (JTSG) Report,
Encounter at Batla House: Unanswered Questions, a damning indictment
of the police version had been submitted to the Commission earlier
this year. By ignoring all contrary voices, the NHRC has proved
itself to be a brazenly partisan body, and damaged its own standing
and independent credibility,” the group added.
Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) ’s
national coordinator Mahtab Alam also condemned the NHRC report,
saying the rights body has been biased in its finding. The report
just echoed the police theory, he maintained.
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