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Batla ghost returns with autopsy
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Batla House encounter has returned to haunt Delhi Police once again. The postmortem reports of the two suspected militants killed in the encounter have raised many questions. The reports were obtained by a Jamia Millia Islamia final year student, Afroz Alam Sahil (22), with RTI from National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Another report prepared by forensic and medical experts part of the postmortem reports has not been made public.
The four-page autopsy reports of the Indian Mujahideen suspects Atif Amin and Mohammad Sajid reveal that they had suffered injuries by a blunt object apart from gunshot wounds.
Eight out of 10 bullet entry wounds on the body of Atif are on the back side, in the region below the shoulders and at the back of the chest, which point to the fact that he was repeatedly shot from behind.
Sajids post-mortem report says there were two wounds on his body which were not caused by a firearm. These injuries were antemortem in nature i.e caused before his death. The first nonfirearm injury is a 4-by-2 cm abrasion over the midline on Sajids back while the latter is a muscledeep laceration wound of 3.5 by 2 cm on the right leg. In which genuine crossfire do people receive injuries only in the back and head region, asked a member of the Jamia Solidarity Teachers Association (JSTA).
Forensic experts at AIIMS, who didnt wish to be identified, said these injuries which are explained in the postmortem report could have been caused by Sajid falling down on an object or hitting a wall after being shot. If the bullet hits any vital organ, there is excessive loss of blood and inadequate supply of blood which causes haemorrhage, said the expert. The range from which the two were shot is also critical but the report does not clarify that.
Another point which drills a hole in the police version is that Sajid was shot three times in the head with the bullets travelling downwards. To which the officials of Delhi Police said Sajid fell down after being hit by a bullet, and during the crossfire, he took the bullets in his head.
One of the bullets which hit Sajid exited from the back of his chest, another came out close to his jaw and the third came out from the rear side of his right shoulder. He also suffered another bullet injury in his head because of a shot from behind, claimed the report.
The report also confirms that Sajid has another bullet entry wound on his right shoulder, which went vertically down and lodged in his chest.
These bullet injuries strongly suggest that he was held down by force while bullets were pumped into his forehead, back and head, claimed Manisha Sethi, a member of JSTA.
The post-mortem report of Atif reveals that he took 10 bullets in his chest, abdomen, thighs, shoulder, neck and lower back.
He is also shown to have a nonfirearm injury (No.7) which is an abrasion on his right knee.
Twenty-two-year-old Sahil, who got the report nearly 18 months after the encounter, said he approached NHRC several times and it was in October last year that he filed an RTI application with NHRC for the sixth time. It took him nearly six months to get the copy of the postmortem. The autopsies of Atif and Sajid were done three days after the encounter by a panel of three AIIMS doctors of forensic medicine.
Senior counsel Prashant Bhushan, speaking to TOI, said, The autopsy report destroys the police theory of a genuine encounter. Moreover, there were burn marks on their bodies which explains that they were shot from a close range. We will once again demand a judicial probe into the encounter.
He added that the injuries in their head clearly suggest that they were made to sit and were then shot. Blunt injuries mentioned in the autopsy could not have been caused in a shootout.
Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat refused to comment on the report and said, The investigations into the case are still going on and we do not want to comment on the report.
COPS ENCOUNTER TOUGH QUESTIONS
Autopsy |
Eight out of 10 wounds on Atifs body are on the rear side, in the region below the shoulders and at the back of the chest
Cops |
He might have suffered gun shots from behind in the crossfire and initially they did not know how many people were inside the flat
Autopsy |
Blunt object injuries and three gun wounds in Sajids head
Cops |
The injuries could have been caused after he fell down due to the bullet injuries. Sajids head injuries were also caused when he was caught in the crossfire