The Delhi High Court today favoured a full-fledged inquiry by National Human Rights Commission into the controversial Batla House encounter here even as the Delhi government opposed a magisterial probe on the commission's direction.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday stayed the CIC's order directing the police to reveal postmortem reports of two suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists and a Delhi Police inspector killed during the Batla House encounter last year.

A bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said that Batla House encounter case stands on different footing as compared to the Mumbai terror attacks and government's reluctance to follow NHRC's guidelines would undermine the commission.

The Chief Information Commissioner has directed the Delhi Police to submit all documents pertaining to the Batla House encounter before it by Thursday to decide whether the information can be disclosed with an RTI applicant or not.

Union Minister for Human Resource and Development Arjun Singh indicated on Tuesday that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is mulling a judicial probe into the Batla House gun battle in which the Delhi Police killed two suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists.