Initially Digvijay Singh had repeatedly pointed out that the Batla encounter was a fake one and it somehow gave the impression that perhaps the senior congress leader’s apprehensions were not wrong and somehow Digvijay Singh must have had some extra information to corroborate his suspicions. However today Shivraj Patil, the then Home Minister cleared the air by stating the contrary. This clearly means that Digvijay Singh must have had some political motive to have insisted time and again that the encounter was a fake on.