SIMI encounter: CM orders probe into 'all aspects'
- Under-trial activists of SIMI escaped from a jail on the intervening night of October 30-31
- They were subsequently killed in an encounter on the outskirts of the city on October 31.
- Various problems with the encounter have lead to allegations that it fake.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has ordered a judicial probe into the  sensational jail-break by eight SIMI activists from the Bhopal central prison and their alleged encounter.
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The judicial probe will be conducted by retired High Court Judge Justice S K Pandey, an official release issued late last night here stated.
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"Justice Pandey will probe all aspects related to how SIMI activists escaped from the high security jail and the encounter that took place after that," it said.
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A PIL was also filed in the Madhya Pradesh High Court yesterday on the issue demanding judicial probe into the incident.
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The under-trial activists of the outlawed SIMI escaped from the central jail in Bhopal on the intervening night of October 30-31 and were subsequently killed in an encounter on the outskirts of the city on October 31.
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Before escaping from the jail, the SIMI activists also killed a head constable Ramashankar Yadav.
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Since the encounter took place, conflicting versions from police and state Home Minister surfaced, leading to allegations that it might be fake.
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A controversy also raged over the police action following the daring pre-dawn jail-break, after TV channels showed footage purportedly from the encounter site in which a policeman is seen pumping bullets into a man from close range after some unidentified person takes out what appears to be a knife said to be in a plastic cover and places it back.