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  Bhopal jailbreak: Use of force inevitable, quite reasonable in SIMI activists’ encounter, says panel

  India | June 25, 2018 19:09 IST

  Eight members of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who had escaped from the Bhopal Central Jail in October 2016, were shot dead by the police near here.

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  ‘Sabko nipta do’: New audio clip of Bhopal encounter raises doubt

  India | November 04, 2016 12:40 IST

  The controversy over the killing of eight SIMI activists after they escaped the Bhopal Central Jail grew bigger on Thursday with the new audio tapes of conversation purportedly between cops hinting at the encounter being a pre-planned murder.

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  ‘We’re coming on Diwali’, wrote slain SIMI activists; had planned to free all 29 accused

  India | November 03, 2016 12:13 IST

  Investigations into the Bhopal jail break incident have revealed that the eight SIMI activists, who were killed in a police encounter after they managed to escape the Central Jail, were planning to set free all 29 Islamic radicals lodged in the priso

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  ‘Had warned govt about Bhopal Jail’s vulnerable points’: ex-prison chief

  India | November 02, 2016 10:57 IST

  A retired jail official had warned the Madhya Pradesh government in 2014 about the vulnerable conditions and lapses in security arrangements of the jail.

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  Bhopal jail break: ‘Encounter’ site turns into ‘virtual tourist spot’

  India | November 02, 2016 10:58 IST

  A day after eight SIMI activists were killed in encounter after they escaped from Bhopal Central Jail, hundreds of curious villagers thronged Manikhedi Pahadi, the site where the alleged encounter took place on Monday.

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  Why do only Muslims and not Hindus break out of jail? asks Digvijaya Singh

  Politics | November 01, 2016 12:20 IST

  Raising serious doubts over the authenticity of the police version of the encounter of eight alleged SIMI activists, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh today wondered as to why only Muslims break out of jails in Madhya Pradesh.