The Congress general secretary was shown black flags When he arrived to console the families whose wards have been arrested in connection with terror-related incidents in the last two years.
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh was shown black flags by members of the Ulema Council as he arrived in Azamgarh today to console the families whose wards have been arrested in connection with terror-related incidents in the last two years.
The Ulema Council members, who had threatened not to allow the Congress leader visit such families terming the move as an eyewash, gathered in large numbers at different places on his way to Sanjarpur village and shouted slogans and waved black flags to him demanding that the truth of the arrests be examined.
However, Singh accompanied by UPCC president Rita Bahuguna Joshi, met the families of the arrested boys in the village and assured them of justice saying while the guilty should not go unpunished it must also be seen that the innocent are not harassed.
He also expressed doubts that the Human Rights Commission, which probed the Batla House encounter, heard the aggrieved parties seriously.
"After suspicions were raised over the encounter, it's inquiry was haned over to the Human Rights Commission, but perhaps, it did not hear the kin of the youths killed in the incident seriously," Singh told a gathering after meeting the families of Azamgarh youths.
The Congress leader said that he himself had raised doubts over the encounter and had apprised the prime minister with his suspicions who assured that justice would be delivered in the case.
"Batla house encounter is being discussed again and again. We are sad with the incident in which two youths and a policeman were killed," he said.
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