Scribes question encounter

IN Media Watch Briefs | 01/11/2016

Journalists have been raising doubts about the MP police encounter with 8 SIMI activists who escaped from Bhopal Central jail. But Dainik Bhaskar journalist Pravin Dubey reached the spot of the alleged police encounter with the 8 Simi men after a 5 km trek and looked at the bodies lying there. His account on his Facebook page questions the need to have killed them given the topography of the place they were cornered in, and asks why already dead men were fired upon again.

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