Retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and former Enforcement Directorate (ED) chief, Karnal Singh, was a part of the special team of Delhi Police, which had carried out the much debated encounter of terrorists in Batla House in the national capital in 2008. In an interaction with Ehsaas Woman of Mumbai Ketki Bhatia in the latest edition of An Author’s Afternoon, hosted by Prabha Khaitan Foundation and presented by Shree Cement, Singh spoke about his book Batla House where he wrote about the encounter extensively.
The book is centred around the Batla House encounter which is the most debated encounter even at the present time. He had started the book on Sept 13 (Sept 13, 2008) when the blast took place in Delhi and then gave the account of how the investigations proceeded. The book is about the encounter, the death of one of the most decorated police officers, (Inspector) Mohan Chand Sharma and what had happened thereafter. He has also included (in the book) how and why the Indian Mujahideen was created.
