Prime Minister didn't want probe, says Digvijaya Singh

The Batla House encounter returned to the centre stage of political discourse after activists of the Ulema Council burnt the effigy of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi in Azamgarh on Wednesday, demanding a judicial probe into the 2008 incident. Later in the day, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh repeated his charge that the encounter was fake and added it could not be probed as the prime minister and home minister believed the encounter was true. "The prime minister and home minister were of the view that the encounter was true. That's why I did not press it further," Singh said.

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