Salman Khurshid says Sonia Gandhi was ‘shaken’ by Batla House encounter

On Friday (November 12), veteran Congress chief Salman Khurshid courted controversy after reiterating that occasion supremo Sonia Gandhi was shaken by the visuals of lifeless terrorists within the Batla House encounter.
While chatting with Rahul Shivshankar of Times Now, Khurshid emphasised that Gandhi was stunned by the style by which the Indian Mujahideen terrorists have been neutralised. He justified, “I can tell you what I said and what had happened. The gruesome pictures that were produced and shown, shook her. She said, ‘Do not show them to me.’ She was not shaken by the ideology of the man who was killed but the manner in which a human being was killed.”
Khurshid additional added, “For the worst people of the country, we do not allow executions on the streets. That’s the law in the country.” At that time, Rahul Shivshankar identified that the boys weren’t unusual however terrorists, who had killed a police officer and have been neutralised within the encounter. “She did not shed tears for the police officer,” the Times Now journalist acknowledged.
The Congress chief then tried to offer a clear chit to the Batla House terrorists by claiming that the matter was controversial. Rahul Shivshankar then identified to Salman Khurshid {that a} courtroom had held the accused within the Batla House encounter responsible. On listening to that, the Congress chief stated, “Of course, if the judgment has come, let it rest there. Let’s not question that.”
Salman Khurshid reveals Sonia-Batla inside story, says ‘Cong chief was shaken by the manner in which a human being was killed’. Listen in to this explosive revelation #TimesNowUnique #CongVsHindutva pic.twitter.com/WQrh7wMxv6— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) November 12, 2021
The Batla House encounter dates again to September 19, 2008, throughout which two Indian Mujahideen terrorists specifically Atif Amin and Mohammad Sajid have been neutralised. The terrorists had been hiding in a locality in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar, after killing about 30 folks in Delhi serial blasts. When the Delhi police acquired intelligence stories about their hideout, they ambushed the locality resulting in the encounter of the 2 terrorists. Three others, together with Ariz Khan, managed to flee the regulation enforcement earlier than being nabbed in 2018.
In March this yr, terrorist Ariz Khan, convicted of murdering Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma in the course of the Batla House encounter, was awarded the demise penalty by a Delhi Court. While political opportunism will not be new to Indian politics, the Batla House encounter was a obtrusive instance of politicians placing vote financial institution politics over the nation’s pursuits. The Congress occasion not solely insinuated that the probe was not impartial, and stirred sympathy for the terrorists but additionally mocked the martyrdom of MC Sharma and forged aspersions concerning the authenticity of the encounter.
Salman Khurshid and his earlier statements with respect to Batla House encounter
Salman Khurshid, in one in every of his rallies in the course of the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, had stated that Sonia Gandhi, the then Congress President, cried bitterly after seeing the pictures of the slain terrorists.
Khurshid had stated, “When we showed Sonia Gandhi the images of the ‘incident’, she started crying bitterly and with folded hands, she said please do not show me these pictures. Immediately go and speak to the Wazir-e-Azam (Dr Manmohan Singh) and discuss the matter. I talked to the PM and it was decided that the matter will be further investigated.”

However, in 2019, Salman Khurshid retracted his assertion and claimed that he was quoted out of context. He stated, “I never said that. In fact, I was misquoted. There was a difference between what I had said and what the media projected. I had said that the then Congress President didn’t wish to see visuals of an encounter (as the images are painful in nature).” Except, it doesn’t seem so.