Batla house
Batla House is an upcoming Indian Hindi language action thriller film directed by Nikkhil Advani. Inspired by the Operation Batla House that took place in 2008, the film stars john Abraham in the lead role as a police officer named Sanjeev Kumar Yadav.
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Batla House encounter officially known as Operation Batla House, took place on 19 September 2008, against indian Mujahideen(IM) terrorists in Batla House locality in Jamia Nagar, Delhi, in which two terrorists, Atif Ameen and Mohammad Sajid, were killed while two other Mohammad Saif and Zeeshan, were arrested, while Ariz Khan managed to escape. Encounter specialist and Delhi police inspector mohan chand Sharma was martyred during the incident. The encounter led to arrest of a number of local people, leading to widespread allegations and protests by political parties, civil society groups, activists, especially teachers and students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University. Several political organizations like the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) demanded a judicial inquiry into the encounter, in the Parliament, as "new versions" of the encounter, started appearing in the newspapers. Subsequently, on the Delhi High Court's directive on 21 May 2009, the National Human Rights Commission(NHRC) in its 22 July report cleared the police of any violations of rights.Public speculations and debate however continued.
Batla House encounterLocation
L-18 Zakir Nagar, Jamia Nagar, Delhi
Date19 September 2008Executed bySpecial cell, Delhi PoliceCasualties3 (2 suspects; 1 police inspector) killed
2 injured
2 injured
The incident took place a week after five serial blasts on 13 September 2008 that hit Delhi in which at least 30 people were killed and over 100 injured.The killing of Atif Amin, who was the chief bomber of the Indian Mujahideen, had dealt a severe blow to the group, which earlier been blamed for terror attacks between 2007 and 2009, in Delhi, Ahmedabad, jaipur, surat and faizabad, according to investigating agencies. On the two-year anniversary of the encounter a shooting took place at the gates of historic jama Masjid, Delhi, in which two foreign tourists were injured, apart from that a car bomb with failed timer was also found in the vicinity. The police had filed the chargesheet against Shahzad, Ariz Khan (absconding), Atif Ameen and Mohammad Sajid on 28 April 2010, accusing them of killing Inspector Sharma on 19 September 2008. On 15 February 2011, Additional Sessions Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar framed charges against accused Shahzad Ahmed alias Pappu for the offences of murder (Section 302), attempt to murder (Section 307), section 333 (causing hurt to public servant), 353 (assault to deter a public servant from discharge of his duty), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of his public functions) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code, besides section 27 of the Arms Act for his role in the 'encounter'.
The case was referred to T D Dogra of AIIMS New Delhi for expert opinion, subsequently he appeared in court of law as an expert witness, he had explained the event through animation On 25 Jul 2013, the Saket sessions court in its judgement convicted one of the suspects, Shahzad Ahmad, for murder of police inspector.MohanChand Sharma and attempted murder of Head Constables Balwant Singh and Rajbir Singh. The court also found Ahmad guilty of obstructing and assaulting public servants, and grievously injuring the police officers to deter them from performing their duty.
After the verdict, Shahzad's defense counsel Satish Tamta accused that the court had proposed its own theory while arriving at the conclusion that Shahzad had escaped after shooting at police officers.And court came to the conclusion after 70 witnesses,including six eye witnesses of the raiding team of Delhi police special cell On 28 August,yasin Bhatkal, the Chief of indian Mujahideen was arrested from India-Nepal Border. Yasin had allegedly fled the Batla House, minutes before the encounter took place.
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