Bhopal SIMI encounter: Probe body will favour RSS, BJP version, says ex-advocate general
08:48PM Tue 8 Nov, 2016
INDORE: A former Madhya Pradesh advocate general on Monday came down heavily on chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for appointing Justice (retd) SK Pandey to probe Bhopal jailbreak and SIMI encounter. He said the move was aimed at helping RSS and BJP propaganda about the killings. "Your selection of Justice SK Pandey is neither fair nor impartial, but tainted to help the propaganda of RSS and BJP about the encounter," senior advocate and former advocate general Anand Mohan Mathur said in a letter to the chief minister.
"As far as I know, and this can be verified from various sources in Jabalpur, Indore and Gwalior that Justice Pandey has been a sympathizer and supporter of RSS and BJP, therefore, Justice Pandey will not be an impartial judge of inquiry under the Inquiry Commission Act," he said. Mathur's allegations came at a time when right wing activists staged a protest near his house on Monday against his plans to form a human chain in Indore after jailbreak demanding appointment of a Supreme Court Judge to head the encounter.
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The activists accused Mathur of backing SIMI activists by attempting to form the human chain at Regal Square here on November 5. But Mathur and his fellow protestors were stopped by the police. Mathur referred to the police action in his letter and said due to repression of government and arrest of large number of his fellow protestors, the chain could not be formed. The human chain was planned to push for appointment of Supreme Court judge to probe the encounter because 'eight prisoners, who are citizens of India, have been killed by your administration'.
The former advocate general also accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of controlling print and electronic media. "A media channel named NDTV was exposing your encounter has been banned on November 9. This is repression of media and violation of right to speak and criticize the government by press and common man," Mathur said.
Mathur also demanded that the FIR lodged in the SIMI encounter case and the post-mortem reports should be made public. Information about the circumstances in which the head constable was killed should also be revealed. "People of Madhya Pradesh want and answer from you so that neither the FIR nor the post-mortem report could be manipulated," Mathur said. The advocate also sought details of talks between various police officials before and after the encounter on November 1, where eight SIMI men escaping from Bhopal's central jail were shot dead by the police at Eintkhedi village.
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