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Batla House Conviction: Law Minister Slams Congress & Mamata; Asks Will You Apologise?
Ravi Shankar Prasad said probe faced certain hurdles and was delayed due to the campaigns that the opposition had launched to show that the encounter was fake
A day after a Delhi court found Ariz Khan guilty of killing Inspector M C Sharma in the 2008 encounter at Batla House, Union Minister for Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday addressed a news briefing and attacked the Opposition, remarking I will expose you today. Politics is being played on the arrest of Ariz Khan. He said that Khan was involved in not just one, but many terror attacks in India and the court has found him guilty on the basis of evidence that was collected by the Delhi Police from 100 people.
'Will Congress, Mamata apologise?' asks Ravi Shankar Prasad over Batla house encounter case - The remarks came a day after a Delhi court convicted Ariz Khan, who was arrested in Feb 2018 in connection with the 2008 Batla House encounter case.
New Delhi [India], March 9 (ANI): Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday slammed Congress and said the Batla House incident was designed to weaken the morale of Delhi Police.
New Delhi, March 9
A day after the verdict in the Batla House encounter case, the ruling BJP on Tuesday slammed Opposition parties Congress, TMC, SP and AAP for allegedly supporting terrorists for the sake of vote bank politics and portraying the Delhi Police as “murderers”.
The BJP demanded a proper inquiry into the matter on how an alleged sustained campaign for vested political interests affected the morale of the police.
“We know how scared the Delhi Police were at that time because of this sustained campaign. It is shameful how leaders of the party, whose government led by Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, gave Ashok Chakra to late Mohan Chand Sharma, hounded the Delhi Police,” Union Minister Ravi Shakar Prasad claimed.
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