Behind the Batla House shootout: charges that the Jamia Nagar encounter was fake belong in the Wonderland

Behind the Batla House shootout: charges that the Jamia Nagar encounter was fake belong in the Wonderland

By Praveen Swami

Mumbai police crime branch chief Rakesh Maria made the next breakthrough last month, when his investigators held Afzal Usmani, a long-standing lieutenant of ganglord-turned-jihadist Riyaz Bhatkal. From Usmani, the investigators learned that top commander ‘Bashir’ and his assault squad left Ahmedabad on July 26 for a safe house at Jamia Nagar. Armed with this information, the investigators came to believe that Atif Amin either provided Bashir shelter or the two were one and the same person. Inspector Sharma was asked to settle the issue.

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