New Delhi, March 29th, 2011

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report alleging that two criminals were killed in an encounter with the police personnel of Crime Branch in Faridabad district of Haryana.

Having received no intimation about the encounter within 48 hours as per NHRC guidelines, the Commission issued notices to the Director General of Police, Haryana, District Magistrate, Faridabad, and Commissioner of Police, Faridabad to take appropriate action with regard to the investigation of the case as per the guidelines laid down by the Commission in the letter dated 12th May, 2010 written by the Chairperson, NHRC to the Chief Secretaries of all states.

It has sought magisterial enquiry report, inquest report, post-mortem report along with report of independent investigation and explanation for not sending the intimation to the Commission about the encounter.

The report carried on the 28th March, 2011 quoted Superintendent of Police, Mr. Anil Dhawan that Nitin Sharma, a resident of village Baheen along with his two accomplices Jagdeep (Kosi) and Randhir (Kharrot) was going on the motorcycle towards Palwal from Bharatpur, Rajasthan to collect extortion money of rupees twenty lakhs from a jeweller.

On receiving an information, police officials of crime branch Palwal started checking near Karman Border. While doing so they saw three persons on a bike and tried to stop them, but they reportedly opened fire and tried to run away. Police opened fire in retaliation, resulting in the death of Nitin and Jagdeep on the spot while Randhir managed to escape from the spot. Allegedly, Randhir is the younger brother of notorious criminal Bacchu Singh and he is also involved in the murder of a Sub-Inspector.

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