New Delhi: The Mumbai police has shot dead
two 'al Qaeda' and one 'Taliban' terrorists in police
encounters in 2004, if one goes by an RTI reply.
While official agencies have so far denied presence of
Taliban or al-Qaida in India, the Mumbai police Crime Branch
has given this information in a reply to an RTI application on
encounters carried out since 1980.
The reply has stated that the Crime Branch killed one
Adnan alias Mohammed Khaleel alias Abu Salem and an
unidentified militant belonging to 'al Qaeda' in an encounter
on June 16, 2004 at Andheri.
It also said in the same year, on July 7, the property
cell of Crime branch shot dead one Shakil Ahmed Ali Maulana of
'Taliban' in an encounter near Worli suburb.
In its encounter data for the year 2004, the Mumbai
police has said that the Crime Branch shot dead 15 goons at
different places in an around the western metropolis, between
January 7 to December 22.
The RTI reply received by Mumbai-based activist Chetan
Kothari reveals that more than 1,000 gangsters of different
underworld groups were gunned down by the Mumbai police in the
last 28 years in shootouts.
Bureau Report
First Published: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 18:01