Fake Encounters

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said questions have been raised over "fake" encounters in Uttar Pradesh and the BJP-ruled state has received maximum NHRC notices on such actions, remarks coming in the backdrop of death of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad's son Asad in a gunfight. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister also took a jibe at his successor Yogi Adityanath over his "will reduce mafia to dust" comments made in the Assembly, saying those who mouth such "filmi dialogue" have no faith in the Constitution. Gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad's son Asad and an accomplice, both wanted in the Umesh Pal murder case, were shot dead in an exchange of fire with the Uttar Pradesh Police near Jhansi on Thursday, officials said in Lucknow. The alleged encounter took place apparently at the time Ahmad, a former SP legislator, was in a Prayagraj court, where he was presented before the Chief Judicial Magistrate in connection with the same murder. Asked about the gunfight,

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Monday welcomed an Army court's decision to recommend life imprisonment for a captain of the force in connection with the killing of three labourers in a "staged" encounter in Amshipura area of Shopian district in 2020. She expressed hope that an impartial probe would also be ordered into the Lawaypora and Hyderpora encounters that took place in 2021. Retweeting a news report on the development, the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said, "Recommended punishment of life imprisonment for Captain involved in Amshipora fake encounter is a welcome step towards creating accountability in such cases. Hope an impartial probe is also ordered in Lawapora and Hyderpora encounters to prevent the repetition of such ghastly incidents (sic)." Completing general court-martial proceedings in less than a year, an Army court has recommended life imprisonment for a captain in connection with the killing of three men in a "staged" encounter in Amshipura in south Kashm

The case pertains to the killings of 10 Sikhs for their alleged involvement in Khalistani activities

The Allahabad High Court has directed the senior superintendent of police (SSP), Jhansi to ensure that the FIR of a petitioner, whose husband was killed in a police encounter in 2019, be lodged with her version that the man was killed in a fake encounter. The court has directed the SSP and the station house officers (SHOs) of the Gursahay and Moth police stations in Jhansi to ensure that the FIR of petitioner Shivangi Yadav be lodged with her version that her husband was killed in a fake police encounter. Passing the order, the court directed that a copy of the FIR be placed before it on September 29, the next date of hearing in the matter. The petitioner had requested the court to order the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to conduct the probe into the killing of her husband, Pushpendra Singh Yadav, on October 5, 2019 in a fake encounter under the Moth police station. In its order passed on Monday, the bench comprising justices Suneet Kumar and Syed Waiz Mian observ

As Bishnoi's petition came up for hearing in the court of Justice Sureshwar Thakur on Thursday, Punjab Advocate General Anmol Rattan Sidhu argued that the plea should be dismissed as premature.

Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Monday said for the last 20 years the state govt has been recommending that AFSPA be removed and Nagaland taken off the list of areas declared "disturbed areas"

The Trinamool Congress Monday said the killing of 14 civilians by security forces in Nagaland's Mon district has put a question mark over AFSPA and proved that Amit Shah has failed to perform his duty

T Yepthomi, Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) MP from Nagaland in Lok Sabha on Monday demanded an inquiry into the firing incident in which at least 13 civilians have lost their lives

Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, on Monday demanded the removal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) from the state stating that the law has tarnished the image of the country

Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has ordered a high-level probe into the reported killings of civilians by security forces in Oting village in the Mon district of the state

Protests were held at several places in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday over the Hyderpora encounter, demanding an inquiry into the killing of the three persons accused of having terror links

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed discharge of Senior Superintendent of Police Mahesh Bhardwaj in the NHRC from the SIT probing alleged fake encounters in Manipur.

Killing of gangster gives the Opposition chance to breach the pan-Hindu vote bank the BJP constructed before 2014

While answering the question on maintaining law and order in the state Yogi said: "providing security for more than 200 million people of UP is the responsibility of my government."

Dubey was shot dead on Friday by police, who claim he was trying to flee after the car carrying him from Ujjain overturned on an isolated stretch of the highway on the outskirts of the city

The matter came up before a Division Bench headed by Chief Justice R S Chauhan

Criminals sentenced to death are always given a long rope, to file review and mercy petitions, with their sentences frequently getting commuted to life

A broken justice system results in unconstitutional methods of delivering justice

Instead of promoting the rule of law, the killing of rape suspects in Hyderabad sets a reprehensible precedent

Official sources said the team visited a government hospital at Mahabubnagar, where the bodies of the accused were kept after post-mortem