New Delhi, Aug 12 - The probe by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), which gave a clean chit to the police in a south Delhi shootout last year, 'was not fair', an NGO told the Delhi High Court Wednesday.

The Batla House shootout took place Sep 19, 2008 in which two suspected militants and a police officer were killed.

Counsel Prashant Bhushan, appearing for Act Now For Harmony and Democracy before a division bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan, said, 'The NHRC did not conducted a fair probe into the matter. It just relied on the police version and filed the report on the same lines.'

'The NHRC did not visit the spot, nor did they talk to Mohd Saif, the lone survivor of the gun battle and relied only on the police version of the shootout,' Bhushan said.

Bhushan said there was urgent need of a judicial probe by a retired Supreme Court judge into the incident.

The court will hear the matter Aug 19.

A four-member team, headed by NHRC acting chairman G.