| From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 39, Dated Oct 04, 2008 |
| | CURRENT AFFAIRS | | terror puzzle |
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Police Theories Encountered The official narration is shooting holes into their own story on the Delhi operation, triggering demands for an inquiry SHOBHITA NAITHANI
New Delhi IT’S 11 AT night on September 22. Sombre activity is in progress at the Nizamuddin burial ground, but a stunned, occasionally resentful uncertainty pervades the air. A group of some 150 armed policemen stand round, keeping grim watch over a gathering of over 250 people. Some of those attending the funeral are irate. They are questioning the veracity of the rationale that brings them to the burial of Atif, alias Bashir, and Mohammed Sajid, blamed for the September 13 New Delhi blasts and shot dead three days earlier in a police encounter in New Delhi’s Jamia Nagar. Now the two are being buried in the presence of the Shahi Imam of the Delhi Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, local politicians and numerous Muslims visiting the city to mark Ramzan. Speaking at the funeral, Bukhari reiterated what many civil society organisations have been saying since September 19, the day of the encounter: “The police cannot label anyone a terrorist. It’s for the courts to decide whether a person is guilty.” more |
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