Demanding a judicial probe into Batla House encounter 2008, activists of the Ulema Council burnt the effigy of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi in Azamgarh.
At the time of election this Batla House encounter incident returned to be a central stage of political discourse.
When police stormed a flat in Delhi’s Batla House on the basis of information that terrorists belonging to the Indian Mujahideen who had set off blasts in Delhi, were hiding there and two men from Azamgarh were killed in encounter as seemed to be terrorist.
But the two were innocent and the encounter was fake, this claimed by the section of the residents of Azamgarh. Read more