Lucknow: Accusing the Madhya Pradesh government of using police for fulfilling the RSS agenda, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Tuesday demanded a judicial probe into the encounter of eight prisoners associated with banned organisation SIMI.
She also charged that police is misused for political and communal motives in BJP-ruled states.
"Eight prisoners related to SIMI were unarmed. They could have been arrested easily again but no attempts were made in this regard. Prima facie this matter appears suspicious and justice demands judicial probe into the entire incident of encounter," she said in a statement.
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"Its visible that police is misused for political and communal motives in BJP ruled states. Police had saved Vyapam scam, which had taken many lives, accused in MP. Only after SC intervention the matter was handed over to the CBI. MP government is using police for fulfilling RSS agenda", she charged.
BJP government should not avoid instituting judicial probe as many parties and organisations have raised their on the encounter.
Eight SIMI activists were yesterday killed in an alleged encounter with police on the outskirts of Bhopal hours after they escaped from the high-security Bhopal Central Jail killing a security guard.
Yesterday, police had dismissed criticism over the encounter killing of eight SIMI activists near Bhopal, saying there was heavy exchange of fire in which they were felled after which four countrymade guns and some sharp-edged weapons were recovered from them.
Also, IG Chaudhary repeatedly maintained that all questions raised over the encounter were a matter of investigation as the series of events over seven hours between their escape and killing were still being probed.
This came soon after a controversy raged over the police action following the daring pre-dawn jail-break, as TV channels showed footage purportedly from the encounter site in which a policeman is seen pumping bullets into a man from close range after some unidentified person takes out what appears to be a knife said to be in a plastic cover and places it back.
Besides the veracity of the video, police is also probing how the SIMI terror suspects could lay their hands on weapons after their escape.
