New Delhi, Aug 26 - Expressing full faith in the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) inquiry, the Delhi High Court Wednesday refused to order another probe into the Batla House shootout here last year, in which a police inspector and two suspected Islamist militants were killed.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan turned down the plea for any judicial inquiry or a probe by a special investigation team into the Sep 19, 2008, shootout in the south Delhi area of Jamia Nagar.

The court was hearing a petition filed by an NGO called Act Now For Harmony and Democracy (ANHAD).

'The NHRC is a statutory body and its investigation into the case is satisfactory. It is very difficult for us to now to send the matter to a third party for any further enquiry,' the bench said and made clear that it will pass an detailed order later on.

The bench said: 'NHRC's prestige and dignity should be maintained and passing on the inquiry to some other agency is not advisable at this point of time.'

Prashant Bhushan, appearing on behalf of ANHAD, said: 'The NHRC being a statutory body should have conducted the proper investigation into the case. But on the contrary, it has just verified the police version which is not fair. Our demand is only this that the police version should be put to serious scrutiny.'

On this the bench said, 'It is very difficult to imagine the right situation and we cannot predict what occurred there as we are not experts too.