Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bhupendra Singh on Wednesday said the SIMI activists who were gunned down in an encounter with police on October 31 after a jail-break were armed, contradicting the state ATS chief's statement that they had no weapons. Asked if he was going to have a word with Sami over the issue to clear the air, the minister replied in negative. "The SIMI men were dreaded (criminals) and they fired first at the police. Police fired in defence, in which SIMI men were killed," Singh added. They slit the throat of a guard in the jail after making a knife out of a plate which they left behind," the minister said.

Source: dna November 02, 2016 17:44 UTC