Beyond Reasonable Doubt?
The Conviction of Shahzad Ahmad
Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Association
August 2013
Also by JamiaTeachers' SolidarityAssociation'Encounter' at Batla House: (2009)
Unanswered Questions
The Case that NeverWas: (2012)
The 'SIMI' Trial of Jaipur
Framed, Damned, Acquitted:
Dossiers of a Very Special Cell (2012)
Illustrations by ANPU
Acknowledgements:
Mazin Khan AfrozeAlam SahilRajat KumarMayurPRICE: Rs 25
The site map of L 18, Batla House, where an 'encounter' resulted in the death of Inspector M.C. Sharma and two young men, Atif Ameen and Md. Sajid. FlatNumber 108, where the seven-member police party entered to apprehend itsoccupants is in the rear. The ploton which the flats are built is 200 sq yards. Thefrontflat isthe largerone, measuring 130 sqyards, therearflat being 70 sqyards.Intothis 70 sqyards, two bedroom flatentered thepoliceteam. According tothepoliceversion,theyenteredthroughtheleftdoor,whichwasnotlocked.Thefrontdoorwaslockedfrominside.Two'terrorists',oneofwhomistheaccusedShahzad Ahmad, escaped from the front, unlocking the double iron and wooden doors whilstfiringatthepolice.AllappealstotheCourttovisitthebuildingtotakeafirsthandlookofthesiteofthe'encounter'failed.
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