The Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association on Thursday appealed to the National Human Rights Commission to intervene in the Fauzi encounter killing by the Delhi Police on August 19 on Pushta Road.
The area where the encounter happened falls under the Sonia Vihar Police Station.
Highlighting a pattern in all the encounter killings, the civil society body alleged that the Delhi Police’s version of events leading up to the Fauzi encounter was “similar” to many other encounters in the past.
Arguing that the encounter killing of Fauzi has “all the markings of a fake encounter”, JTSA appealed to the NHRC to order a magisterial enquiry into the encounter. It also requested for NHRC's own enquiry into the encounter killing, especially in the light of earlier reports of Fauzi’s arrest.
Referring to an earlier encounter killing at Sonia Vihar, the group asked why was the place becoming a “favourite haunt of encounter specialists”. It also demanded that a magisterial enquiry report into the 2006 Sonia Vihar encounter be made public.
