Encounter of 8 SIMI men

Eight suspected members of a radical Islamist group were killed by the police in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, 31 October,2016, hours after they allegedly escaped from a high-security jail by slitting the throat of a prison guard and scaling the walls with knotted bedsheets.
The police said the eight members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) were cornered on the outskirts of the state capital and shot dead when they fired on securitymen.

A video clip purportedly showing policeman shooting at an apparently injured fugitive lying on a flat-topped rock raised doubts about the authenticity of the encounter, prompting rights groups and opposition parties to seek a probe. Another purported clip of the encounter surfaced later, showing the SIMI fugitives waving at the policemen from a rocky outcrop amid a scrub forest lowland. After a break, the video resumes to show one of the policemen firing a round from his rifle at the group on the rock.

The police said the veracity of the clips was yet to be ascertained. “We acted on intelligence and located the inmates. They fired on us and all eight were killed in crossfire,” Yogesh Chaudhury, the Bhopal inspector general of police, told reporters, adding that three cops suffered pellet injuries. He said four country-made guns and three sharp weapons were found on the SIMI men.
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8 SIMI terrorists who escaped Bhopal Central Jail killed in encounter
8 SIMI terrorists who escaped Bhopal Central Jail killed in encounter
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According to reports, all terrorists were killed in an encounter mid-morning in Ithkhedi village on the outskirts of Bhopal.
By ET BureauLast Updated: Nov 01, 2016, 12:22 AM IST29
NEW DELHI: Eight Simi activists were shot dead on the outskirts of Bhopal, hours after the undertrials slit the throat of a guard and escaped from a city prison in a daring jailbreak.

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However, the operation kicked up a controversy after a video footage purportedly showed a policeman pumping bullets into a man from close range. Some unidentified men were also seen in the video brandishing a knife that was neatly wrapped in a plastic cover.

Madhya Pradesh director general of police, Rishi Shukla said: “I do not want to comment on the videos.
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The inquest is being held, we will provide the details once it’s over. We are also looking at the sequence of events as how they were all travelling together.”
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When asked if there were doubts on the genuineness of the encounter, Shukla said, “I have no comments to make. They pulled him (jail guard) in the cell and slit his throat. It was a brutal murder.” Two out of eight Simi operatives who were killed in the encounter were involved in a similar jail-break in Khandwa in 2013.

The slain prisoners were identified as Amzad, Zakir Hussain Sadiq, Mohammad Salik, Mujeeb Shaikh, Mehbood Guddu, Mohammad Kalid Ahmed, Aqeel and Majid. Later, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced that the National Investigation Agency would probe the jail-break amid contradictions on the encounter.
IG Yogesh Choudhary said fleeing Simi activists carried weapons and fired at policemen when confronted and . But this contradicted with Home Minister Bhupendra Singh’s statement that the undertrials used spoons and plates from the prison as weapons to attack security personnel.

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