Uttar Pradesh: 12 police officers booked for allegedly killing a man accused of cow slaughter

The police, however, claim that 42-year-old Zeeshan Haider was shot by alleged cattle smugglers during a gunfight.

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· Jan 23, 2023 · 03:55 pm

Data check: In last six years, India has registered a case of encounter killing every three days

At 38, Jammu and Kashmir reported the largest number of extrajudicial killings in the past year.

Nidhi Jacob, Factchecker.in

· Jul 28, 2022 · 07:30 pm

2019 Hyderabad shooting: Police deliberately fired upon accused, says SC inquiry panel report

Ten police officers should be tried for murder and destruction of evidence, the Justice VS Sirpurkar commission said.

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· May 20, 2022 · 05:15 pm

Hyderabad encounter: Supreme Court again gives six more months to inquiry panel to finish probe

This was the third extension granted to the commission for submitting its final report.

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· Aug 03, 2021 · 03:21 pm

Ishrat Jahan case: CBI court discharges last three accused, says ‘no question of any fake encounter’

The court said there was nothing on record to suggest that Jahan and others were not terrorists.

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· Mar 31, 2021 · 02:11 pm

Ishrat Jahan encounter: Gujarat government refuses sanction to prosecute three police officers

The three accused and another retired officer have now filed applications before the court seeking ‘dropping of proceedings for want of requisite sanction’.

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· Mar 21, 2021 · 12:32 pm

Hyderabad encounter: Supreme Court gives six more months to investigation panel to finish inquiry

A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde passed the order while hearing a plea filed by the panel, seeking such an extension.

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· Jul 24, 2020 · 02:55 pm

A reminder for UP: Supreme Court has said that fake encounters amount to state-backed terror

The trigger-happy approach of the state police towards alleged criminals has no place in a society governed by the rule of law.

Rohan Deshpande

· Jul 23, 2020 · 07:30 am

Hours before Vikas Dubey’s killing, lawyer filed plea in SC seeking security for gangster

The petitioner, Ghanashyam Upadhyay, had expressed fear that Dubey would be killed in a staged encounter by the police.

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· Jul 10, 2020 · 02:02 pm

Telangana encounter: AIIMS team conducts second autopsy on bodies of four accused killed by police

The autopsy was videographed and the doctors were asked to express an independent view on the basis of the evidence they collected.

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· Dec 23, 2019 · 08:47 pm

Telangana encounter: High Court orders second autopsy of four accused within 48 hours

The court directed a team of forensic experts from All India Institute of Medical Sciences to conduct the examination.

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· Dec 21, 2019 · 06:40 pm

‘Stop calling for summary executions after horrific crimes,’ former civil servants tell MPs

The former bureaucrats urged parliamentarians to ‘bring about the meaningful changes necessary to curb such crimes in the future’.

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· Dec 13, 2019 · 02:51 pm