Almost three days after two mobile phone videos challenged Madhya Pradesh police’s version that eight fugitive SIMI suspects were killed in an encounter, a newly circulated audio recording has raised further doubts.
According to a news report published by News18, the audio recording, purportedly from the police control room, suggests that police personnel on the field were under orders from their superiors to shoot to kill all eight of the SIMI suspects.
“The boss is saying kill them all,” a voice could be heard saying in the audio recording. Minutes later, apparently after all the suspects had been gunned down, a voice could be heard gloating, “The game is over, the eight are dead now.”
The eight undertrials escaped from the Bhopal Central Jail before Monday dawn by scaling the 32-feet high boundary wall using bedsheets knotted together as a ladder.
Hours later they were killed in an encounter with police in a forest land near Acharpura village on the outskirts of Bhopal.
