The police in the Indian capital Delhi will give within a week a full account of the shooting incident which left two alleged militants dead on Sunday.

This follows a directive by the country's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

Either they had not slept for several days or had taken a heavy dose of sleeping pills

Dr H Krishna

The commission had sought the police version of the shoot-out after a member of parliament along with a journalist filed a petition saying the alleged militants were unarmed when they were shot dead on Sunday.

The authorities say the two militants were killed by police following an encounter in a busy shopping complex in Delhi.

They also claimed that both the alleged militants were Pakistanis.

Protection

However, serious doubts have been raised about whether the police killed the militants following a shoot-out or not.

A member of parliament, Kuldip Nayar, who filed a petition before the NHRC along with a journalist, told the BBC they had requested protection for a doctor who claimed to have witnessed the incident.

Families were shopping for Diwali when the shootings occurred

According to newspaper reports, the eyewitness, Dr H Krishna, said there was no shoot-out between the police and the alleged militants.

He was quoted in one newspaper as saying he saw two men in their early 20s coming out of a car while he was in the basement of a shopping complex along with his family.

Shot dead

The two men were unable to walk properly and he said: "Either they had not slept for several days or had taken a heavy dose of sleeping pills".

He claimed the two men were shot dead before his eyes.

He denied the police claim that the alleged militants were carrying two bags containing ammunition.

A senior police officer, Neeraj Kumar, said: "We will provide security to the person who claims to be the eyewitness to the incident".

Mr Kumar told the BBC that police would reply to the NHRC within a week.