The Batla House encounter is perhaps the most infamous incident of extrajudicial killing in the country when Delhi Police shot dead two suspected members of the terrorist organization Indian Mujahideen in the crowded Jamia Nagar area of the capital in 2008.?Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma,?of the police's special cell,?known as an "encounter specialist"?who was leading the operation, was also killed in the shootout?following serial bomb blasts in the national capital in which 39 people died and 159 were injured. The operation, which was meant to conduct questioning among Jamia Nagar residents, escalated into a 20-minute shootout whose legality?has since been questioned by critics. In 2021, a Delhi court awarded the death penalty to Ariz Khan for the murder of Sharma, saying the offence fell under the "rarest of the rare category" warranting the maximum sentence.?Ariz Khan had fled from the spot and was declared a proclaimed offender. He was arrested on February 14, 2018, after a decade-long run and faced trial.?Indian Mujahideen terrorist and co-accused Shahzad Ahmed was awarded life imprisonment?in 2013?in connection with the case. His appeal against the verdict has been pending in the high court.