Bhopal, Nov 2: The eight SIMI activists killed in an alleged encounter on Monday sustained gun shots in the head and chest, their lawyer claimed today citing the postmortem reports.
"They were fired upon from the front and all of them sustained injuries in their head and chest, above the waist," lawyer Parvez Alam told PTI claiming that he has seen the postmortem reports of the slain SIMI men.
Repeating his claim that it was a fake encounter, he said that according to a Supreme Court ruling, police should fire below the waist.
Alam said that he will petition the local court for medical examination of the remaining members of the banned organisation lodged in the jail here and alleged they were assaulted. He also claimed that there was threat to his life.
The activists were killed on the city outskirts at Malikheda following their escape from the high-security jail after slitting the throat of a security guard and scaling the 32-ft wall using bedsheets in the wee hours of October 31.
"I am going to move the Bhopal Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court today seeking to conduct medical examination on 20-odd so-called SIMI members in jail," he said.
"I have learnt that they have been brutally beaten," he alleged.
"Besides, I am going to meet MP Director General of Police and seek security for myself," Alam said.
"As I am openly speaking against the encounter, now I fear for my life and family members after the cold-blooded murder of my clients," he added.
Yesterday, bodies of seven of the eight SIMI activists, who were killed in the encounter, were buried in different parts of Madhya Pradesh amid tight security.
While the last rites of Amjad Khan, Zakir Hussain, Mohammad Salik, Sheikh Mehboob, Aqueel Khilji, Mohammed Khalid and Abdul Majid were conducted in the state, the body of another deceased Sheikh Mujeeb was taken to Ahmedabad by his family members.
All the bodies were handed over to the kin after post-mortem here. While taking custody of the bodies, the relatives questioned the genuineness of the police encounter.
However, police has dismissed criticism over the encounter killing of the SIMI activists, saying there was heavy exchange of fire in which they were felled and four countrymade guns and some sharp-edged weapons were recovered from them.
IG Yogesh Chaudhary has 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.
Alam had yesterday said that the families of the accused have decided to move the Madhya Pradesh High Court for a CBI probe into entire episode as well as the killings what they called a "fake" encounter.
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Un biased.....Dont wash the faku acts by adding the Great Dr.ZAKIR Naik. who digged the truth out of Geetha and Vedas whis is undigested to Pejawars and Kalladkas and togadias.....be mindfull ...and learn ISLAM ...the true way
People! Have a heart. Atleast pretend like you care. A loss of life..that too..of innocents..the killers will soon pay for it. If not IN this world.DEFINITELY IN THE HEREAFTER!
Rajesh . if you want to save tax payers money, then get rid off vajpayee and jaswant singh, who are rotting on death bed eating tax payers money ......
@ rahesh... why so frustrated ?? did your wife run away
Preachers are back with a bang,,,,
Dear Muslims
Please maintain your saboor. they are dead. leave it to Allah pray for their magfira. Insha allah all will be exposed pray to Allah.
our dead are in heaven.
Rajesh, what nonsense are you talking, whose system is it, your parents came and built the system, how long you have been here, last 30 years, this India has been there for millions to millions of year, now BJP and all other sangh pariwar came and ruin the image of our country, if you don't know how to talk get the hell out of here, Muslims are good people, they don't create problems, they are very sensible people, it is too much from you people, how long you are going to blame and put Muslims behind bar in the name of simi and under all other worthless names, common give us a break.
They got enough time to repent in jail , if they really did any mistake... Allah may forgive them , they killed for no sins committed.... Allah may hold criminals with hardest punishment... probably they may get rewards by agencies of brutal minds in this part of the world...
Allah says ..They planned, Allah also planned.. surely Allah is the best planner...
not a loss for nation .shoot to kill . thats all . no need to give explaination . they are terrorists . god sake there is no minority appeasing congress in the central or state . finish them all .lawyer inviting big problem . .we are sick of this muslims who took our system for granted for 67 years .jai ho police and jai ho bjp
Prakash Shetty ... before blaming the innocents... Just find out how Vajpaye, Jaswant singh are rotting in their death beds... It is their Karma... do not forget... you are also going to rot in the death bed like your leaders .. Good luck ...
This case is going to Dogs. The sanghis are in Center and State. One more Natak. I'm afraid justice will not happen in this world.
We are not against anyone or for anyone, if the suspect is proven guilty then give him/her the prescribed punishment. Until proven, the suspect is always suspect and we cannot call them terrorist. This is the basic principle I think we all can agree.
None is terrorists or criminal unless it is proved in the court of law. If this is not, then anybody can accuse anyone and kill anyone...none will be safe
These 8 men did not have guns with them, police are bullshitting that there were heavy exchange of fire, who they are fooling, its a cold blooded murder of innocent men up there, investigation must be done to make sure that culprit should not get away from punishment.
Prakash shetty
As per your comment they will atleast enjoy their virgins. So what about sanghis terrorists ? They will only enjoy hell fire.
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