"Encounter killings" or "retaliatory killings" or "extra-judicial executions" by the Police are disconcertingly on the increase now-a-days. It may be profitable to reproduce those Sections hereinbelow:- SECTIONS 96 TO 106 OF IPC " Section 96: Things done in private defence Nothing is an offence which is done in the exercise of the right of private defence Section 97: Right of …