Eight members of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who had escaped from the Bhopal Central Jail in October 2016, were shot dead by the police near here.
The controversy over the killing of eight SIMI activists after they escaped the Bhopal Central Jail grew bigger on Thursday with the new audio tapes of conversation purportedly between cops hinting at the encounter being a pre-planned murder.
Investigations into the Bhopal jail break incident have revealed that the eight SIMI activists, who were killed in a police encounter after they managed to escape the Central Jail, were planning to set free all 29 Islamic radicals lodged in the priso
A retired jail official had warned the Madhya Pradesh government in 2014 about the vulnerable conditions and lapses in security arrangements of the jail.
A day after eight SIMI activists were killed in encounter after they escaped from Bhopal Central Jail, hundreds of curious villagers thronged Manikhedi Pahadi, the site where the alleged encounter took place on Monday.
Raising serious doubts over the authenticity of the police version of the encounter of eight alleged SIMI activists, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh today wondered as to why only Muslims break out of jails in Madhya Pradesh.
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