Live! Batla House: Accused found guilty of killing cop

July 25, 2013 15:16

A Delhi court convicts Shahzad Ahmad from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, for opening fire at a police team to kill Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma in what is called the Batla House encounter, five years ago.

The police alleges that Shazad is an Indian Mujahideen operative, and one of four men respsonsible for serial blasts in Delhi in 2008. The quantum of punishment to be pronounced on Monday.

In September 2008, seven officers of the Delhi Police stormed an apartment building in Batla House in Delhi's Jamia Nagar. They later alleged that terrorists from the Indian Mujahideen were holed up there.

Two suspected terrorists were shot dead. Shahzad was arrested and a fourth managed to escape.

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