BATLA HOUSE RESIDENTS ON HUNGER STRIKE, DEMAND JUDICIAL PROBE

BATLA HOUSE RESIDENTS ON HUNGER STRIKE, DEMAND JUDICIAL PROBE

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August 11, 2022

The issue of the controversial Batla House encounter has been taken up again by the residents of Jamia Nagar after the government ignored their repeated plea of a judicial probe into the encounter, in which two Azamgarh youths Mohammad Atif Ameen and Mohammad Sajid were killed and Special Cell Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma succumbed to his injuries. The residents of the locality have called an indefinite hunger strike since April 14. The hunger strike has come a few days after the disclosure of the autopsy report of the youths. The boys were shot in the encounter on September 19, 2008 after the police came looking for ‘terror suspects’ at L-18 flat at Batla House after the Delhi serial blasts on September 13 the same month. Demanding a judicial probe into the incident, nearly 20 residents are on a hunger strike at Batla House Chowk, 400 metres from the L-18 flat.