The ruling of Ahmedabad Metropolitan Court about Ishrat Jehan and others declaring their killings to be fake encounter brings to mind several past encounters and creates a suspicion that those may have been carried out at the behest of politicians and for the purpose of pleasing their masters. Earlier we have learnt about the wealth accumulated by Daya Nayak, an encounter specialist. The controversy on Batla House encounter is still fresh in our mind. While talking of encounters, one wonders what happened to Hari Krishna, the eyewitness doctor, in the Ansal Plaza encounter in Delhi? It is high time the central government appointed a high-level inquiry to get all the deliberate and systematic fake encounters probed. The security of the people and the nation is too important to be the preserve of an individual or a political group.
Ruby Naushad
Bangalore, Karnataka