On 31 October 2016 the Madhya Pradesh police killed 8 undertrial Muslim youths citing the reason that they “had broken jail and were running away”. The videos that have come up later have clearly exposed the lies of the BJP government and the contradiction between the statements of the state home minister and the Bhopal IG. Besides Delhi, where protest was held on 1 November demanding a full enquiry monitored by the Supreme Court into these alleged encounter killings, protests have also been organized in other parts of the country.
In Darbhanga, Bihar, a protest march against the fake encounter killings in MP was taken out under the joint banners of the CPI(ML) and the Insaf Manch. The march, led by ML State committee member Abhishek Kumar, Insaf Manch State VP Naiyaz Ahmad, and CPI(ML) City Secretary Com. Sadiq Bharati, proceeded past the Collectorate and culminated in a meeting at the Laheriyasearai Tower presided over by Ranjeet Ram. Addressing the meeting Abhishek Kumar said that even before this, the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has regularly killed adivasis and minorities in fake encounters. This is the same Shivraj Chauhan government which has murdered 42 people in order to hush up the Vyapam scam. Naiyaz Ahmad said that the killing of 8 undertrials by the MP police is a cold-blooded and pre-planned murder.
