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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | UP Police Encounters: SC seeks report from Yogi Govt.

UP Police Encounters: SC seeks report from Yogi Govt.

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published Published on Jul 3, 2018   modified Modified on Jul 3, 2018
-Caravandaily.com

Petitioner PUCL has also sought compensation to victims’ families.

NEW DELHI:
The Supreme Court of India on Monday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to file a detailed report on the police shootouts in which more than 50 people have been killed in the last one year.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra has sought response in two weeks from the Uttar Pradesh government of Yogi Adityanath on a petition of Peoples’ Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL) seeking CBI or SIT probe into all the encounter killings in the state.

Since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power with thumping majority in Lucknow in March 2017, the state police have gone on an encounter spree. As per government’s own report, more than 1100 shootouts have taken place. Chief Minister Yogi himself has boasted of the encounters, inviting harsh condemnation from the National Human Rights Commission or NHRC.

Several media reports have exposed holes in various stories of the police encounters in the state.

NHRC has more than once issued notice to the state government while condemning it for the shootouts.

The petitioner, PUCL, has also sought compensation to the victims’ families.

The petition, filed through counsel Advocate Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, has alleged that the incidents of encounter killings are taking place in the state in blatant violation of Rule of Law, legal and protection available to the citizens, under Article 21 of the Constitution.

Appearing for PUCL, senior Advocate Sanjay Parekh referred to the notices of NHRC wherein the rights body said more than 1100 encounters have taken place during the current government and the human rights body has intervened in several cases. The counsel prayed to make NHRC a party in the case. But the three-judge bench also comprising justices AM Khanwilkar and D Y Chanfrachud besides CJI rejected the request.

According to the petition, over 1100 encounters have taken place in the past year, wherein 49 people were killed and 370 were injured. According to the figures given by the State of U.P. to the NHRC, in the encounters, 45 persons have died between 1st January 2017 to 31st March 2018.

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Caravandaily.com, 2 July, 2018, http://caravandaily.com/portal/up-police-encounters-sc-seeks-report-from-yogi-govt/


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