The accused were shot at by Police Inspector (Ramamurthy Nagar) Melvin Francis when the duo attacked ACP (Banaswadi) NS Sakri and other police personnel in the team.
IPS officer GL Singhal retired police officer Tarun Barot and Anaju Chaudhari, the last three accused in the case, had filed the discharge applications on March 20.
While political opportunism is not new to Indian politics, the Batla House encounter was a glaring example of putting vote bank politics over the country's interests.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi claimed Muslims are wantonly targeted in Uttar Pradesh by citing that 37 per cent of the criminals eliminated in encounters in the state were Muslims
Constable Devendra Singh and SI Ashok Kumar Pal had gone to inspect an illegal liquor factory in the woods near Nagla Dheemar village in Kasganj when they were captured and assaulted by the liquor mafia.