SIT probe aimed at bailing out guilty policemen: MBT

The Majlis Bachao Tahreek (MBT) has strongly opposed the ordering of probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the Alair encounter in which five Muslim youth were killed by Telangana police.

"The circumstantial evidences, post-mortem report and other forensic evidences are clearly pointing out that the Alair encounter was fake. Therefore, by ordering a SIT probe, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is trying to bail out guilty police personnel who killed five Muslim under trials in a cold blood murder in broad day light," said MBT leader Amjed Ullah Khan (Ex Corporator) in a media statement on Monday.

The MBT leader asked as to why the Chief Minister was afraid of ordering a CBI probe or a probe by sitting High Court Judge into the encounter. "May be KCR is afraid that the CBI probe might expose the entire conspiracy and also reveal the involvement of some senior police officials in the crime. The selection of victims, location and timing was done in advance and all five persons were shot dead at one instance leaving behind no witnesses. The call history of all the policemen, who were part of the escort, would lead to more clues on the involvement of senior police officials. The Chief Minister is being pressurised by some top police officials to restrain from ordering an independent probe," he said.

Amjed Ullah Khan also described the SIT probe as the result of match-fixing between the Chief Minister KCR and leaders of MIM-led Muslim United Front. "The MUF leaders have mortgaged the interest of Muslim community for personal gains and are trying to bargain for sops on the corpses of five Muslim youth who were killed in a fake encounter. The MUF leader never responded to the apprehensions raised by Viqaruddin and others and their families of them getting killed in a fake encounter. Now they are trying to shed crocodile's tears," he said.

"None of the MUF leaders visited the families of those killed in fake encounter, nor did they participate in the final rites (Namaz-e-Janaza). They did not even offered "Dua-e-Maghfirat" for them. Even after six days, their protest was confined to one meeting at Darussalam and the visit of a delegation to the Chief Minister. They did not take a single member of the victims' families along with them to the Chief Minister. Their actions are being noted by the entire Muslim community which would soon give a fitting a reply to the bunch of retired and tired so-called religious leaders," Amjed Ullah Khan said.

The MBT leader said that SIT probe would not bring any positive results. A one-man Bhaskara Rao Commission was formed to probe into police firing near Mecca Masjid in 2007. However, the Commission's report is yet to be made public. Similarly, no action was taken on the report of enquiry commission which confirmed that several Muslim youth were falsely implicated in Mecca Masjid Blast cases and brutally tortured by the police. The report on police firing in Kishan Bagh wherein innocent Muslims were killed by the police is yet to come out. "The SIT probe into Alair encounter will meet the same fate," he said adding that the MBT would not remain silent unless the government orders a CBI probe into the matter.