Articles for Encounter Killings

Custodial Death, Encounter Killings In Punjab During 1984-1995: Decades-Old Incidents With No Eye-Witness, Initiation Of Investigation Not Feasible: CBI To High Court
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Custodial Death, Encounter Killings In Punjab During 1984-1995: Decades-Old Incidents With No Eye-Witness, Initiation Of Investigation Not Feasible: CBI To High Court

Live Law  

The Central Bureau of Investigation has submitted today before the Punjab & Haryana High Court that investigation into the alleged 6,733 encounter killings, custodial death and illegal cremation of dead bodies in Punjab during the period of 1984-1995 is "not feasible" and will be a futile exercise.A division bench of Acting Chief Justice G.S. The Central Bureau of Investigation has …

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Encounter Killings In Uttar Pradesh Celebrated As Achievements, Police Officials Given Promotions & Awards: Petitioner Tells Supreme Court
1 year, 2 months ago

Encounter Killings In Uttar Pradesh Celebrated As Achievements, Police Officials Given Promotions & Awards: Petitioner Tells Supreme Court

Live Law  

The PIL petitioner who approached the Supreme Court seeking independent investigation into the police encounter killings in Uttar Pradesh has refuted the statements made by the State in its status report. Advocate Vishal Tiwari, the petitioner, in his rejoinder said, "Encounter killings are often celebrated as achievements by state police officials, further encouraging arbitrary and unconstitutional actions. He also said …

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Failure of governments to investigate encounter killings as murder rankling
1 year, 7 months ago

Failure of governments to investigate encounter killings as murder rankling

The Hindu  

Published : May 04, 2023 11:00 IST - 11 MINS READ The shooting down of the gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Khalid Ashraf by three assailants at Prayagraj while they were being taken to hospital under police escort has raised a storm. Rather than the trial process resulting in the conviction of accused persons, we are seeing an increasing …

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‘Encounter Pradesh’ model of instant justice indicates terror may become state policy
1 year, 7 months ago

‘Encounter Pradesh’ model of instant justice indicates terror may become state policy

The Hindu  

The Adityanath government has ushered in an era of unapologetic state vigilantism in Uttar Pradesh. The twin murders in police custody came exactly one day after a Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force gunned down Atiq’s 19-year-old son, Asad Ahmed, and his friend, Ghulam Hassan, in an “encounter” in Jhansi after the police intercepted their bike. Suresh said that since the …

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Cops and criminals: Brothers in arms
1 year, 7 months ago

Cops and criminals: Brothers in arms

The Hindu  

Published : May 04, 2023 11:00 IST - 12 MINS READ Liz Mermin’s 2008 documentary Shot in Bombay juxtaposes three stories: the making of Apurva Lakhia’s Shootout at Lokhandwala, the career of Aftab Ahmed Khan, a former Additional Commissioner of Police of Mumbai, and the criminal trial of Sanjay Dutt under TADA. It was always apparent that Dirty Harry always …

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Encounter killings: Analysing the strongman phenomenon
1 year, 7 months ago

Encounter killings: Analysing the strongman phenomenon

The Hindu  

Published : May 04, 2023 11:00 IST - 14 MINS READ Let me state it starkly and bluntly. What we got instead was Adityanath’s triumphalism: “Those who were a threat are now under threat themselves.” The aggressiveness of Adityanath’s public posture introduces a new dimension to the tension between legitimacy, given by citizens to the police action, and legality, since …

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DC Edit | Encounter killings wrong, can't be state govt policy
1 year, 8 months ago

DC Edit | Encounter killings wrong, can't be state govt policy

Deccan Chronicle  

After presiding over more than 10,000 encounters and 178 encounter killings in the last seven years, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday congratulated the police in his state for shooting down a teenager and his companion, both wanted in a murder case, in Jhansi. It is not just the Uttar Pradesh government which has found the easy way …

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‘Christopher’ movie review: Mammootty’s film is a long, poorly-scripted celebration of encounter killings
1 year, 10 months ago

‘Christopher’ movie review: Mammootty’s film is a long, poorly-scripted celebration of encounter killings

The Hindu  

When a film proudly flashes ‘biography of a vigilante cop’ as its tagline, one certainly expects the narrative to have a few encounter killings. However, nothing prepares one for the sheer number of encounter killings in B. Unnikrishnan’s Christopher, which are often preceded by gruesome scenes of rape or attacks on women, filmed in a graphically disturbing manner. Christopher Director: …

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Hyderabad encounter killings: How Supreme Court panel punctures hole in police theory
2 years, 6 months ago

Hyderabad encounter killings: How Supreme Court panel punctures hole in police theory

Firstpost  

It has been said that all laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. One needs only peruse the recent report of the Supreme Court-appointed VS Sirpurkar Inquiry Commission on the Hyderabad encounter killings to appreciate the salience of this assertion. Put simply, ‘encounter killings’ in South Asia is the moniker given to the spontaneous, unplanned, …

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'Encounter' Killings: Why Does Telangana Celebrate Death and Call It Justice?
3 years, 3 months ago

'Encounter' Killings: Why Does Telangana Celebrate Death and Call It Justice?

The Quint  

The answer to this goes back to the 1970s. Extra-judicial killings or ‘encounter killings’ as then Chief Minister Jalagam Vengal Rao called them, were widely used to suppress the armed rebels. ‘Encounter killings’ meant that an accused was killed during an encounter with the police. Through the 1970s, encounter killings were used to suppress the People’s War Group.the pre-cursor to …

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