By Manish Anand Like a jigsaw puzzle, the questions related to Delhi serial blasts and its consequences seem to have been cracked. An encounter followed by arrests of so many suspects one by one must add to the sheen of the cops, and most importantly to the much battered home minister Shivraj Patil.
If the claim of the police is true of having cracked the case of the Delhi serial blasts and other similar blasts in other cities, the heartiest congratulation goes to the cops. But in a free and democratic society, people have all the right to raise questions, which should not be brushed aside by authorities.
The police must have been forthcoming with the postmortem reports of its officer M C Sharma along with the slain accused of the terror blasts. The ballistic report along with the postmortem reports of all the dead in the Friday encounter at Batla House can put to rest all speculative stories doing rounds in the capital about the way the shoot-out happened.
Why one of the slain accused had more than five bullet marks on skull and top of the shoulder along with how Sharma got the fatal hits are the questions that must be credibly answered to put to rest doubts doing rounds in the narrow lanes of Jamia Nagar. Also, why Sharma had to be helped to walk after being hit, with no back-up force available to reach him to the nearest hospital which is within the radius of one kilometer of the spot of the deadly encounter.
Unauthentic stories will only harm the interests of security agencies, and care must be taken to ensure that non-suspects are not detained as a fallout of collateral damage. The arrests in Mumbai along with raids in Azamgarh, which if the reports are to be believed is turning out to be breeding ground of home-grown terror, have taken place quite fast. The police could be having a water-tight case against the accused, and if it's so all the states should act at the same speed to smash the remaining terror modules in the country.
But if the claims of the cops come untrue at any point of time, the Delhi encounter will become too big a blot to erase.
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