After speech targeting Hindus, Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan dubs Batla House terrorists 'martyrs'

Ittihad-e-Millat Council chief Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan has said those killed in the Batla House encounter should be given the status of martyrs.

Ittihad-e-Millat Council chief Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan has stoked another controversy. He said those killed in the Batla House encounter should be given the status of martyrs. Khan had recently made a speech targeting Hindus.

He said, "Congress had said to me that they would probe Batla House encounter if their government is formed in 2009. Had there been a probe, the world would have known those killed as terrorists should be given martyr status."