In a fresh twist to the SIMI killings, an audio clip has now emerged in which walkie-talkie conversations, allegedly of police officials, involved in 'encounter' with SIMI operatives early this week, can be heard
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In a fresh twist to the SIMI killings, an audio clip has now emerged in which walkie-talkie conversations, allegedly of police officials, involved in ‘encounter’ with SIMI operatives early this week, can be heard. The authentic of the tape is yet to be confirmed. Eight SIMI activists, who were said to have jumped the Bhopal Central Jail on Diwali night, were killed near Malikheda.
According to media reports, the audio clip features a senior police officer, cops at police control room (PCR) and those present at the encounter site at Khijradev village under Gunga police station. The senior police cop is head asking whether five men out of eight) are fleeing together. “Kya paanchon saath me bhaag rahe hain”. To this, one of the officers at the encounter site responds, “Haan, paanhcon saath me bhaag rahe hain.”
The senior policeman then tells them that they shouldn’t back off and kill them after rounding them up: “Bilkul piche nahi hatna hai. Gherke poora kardo kaam tamaam” (Don’t back off...Surround them and finish them.), a cop is then heard saying that the SIMI men were firing at them.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan consoles wailing family member of head warder, Ramashankar Yadav in Bhopal. Pic/ PTI
Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has ordered a judicial probe into the sensational jail-break. The judicial probe will be conducted by retired High Court Judge Justice S K Pandey, an official release issued late last night here stated.
"Justice Pandey will probe all aspects related to how SIMI activists escaped from the high security jail and the encounter that took place after that," it said.
A PIL was also filed in the Madhya Pradesh High Court yesterday on the issue demanding judicial probe into the incident.
The under-trial activists of the outlawed SIMI escaped from the central jail here on the intervening night of October 30-31 and were subsequently killed in an encounter on the outskirts of the city on October 31. Before escaping from the jail, the SIMI activists also killed a head constable Ramashankar Yadav.
Since the encounter took place, conflicting versions from police and state Home Minister surfaced, leading to allegations that it might be fake.
A controversy also raged over the police action following the daring pre-dawn jail-break, after 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.
(With PTI inputs)
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