Referring to Asad Ahmed and Ghulam's encounter, Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav said on Friday that fake encounters are being done in the state after the BJP came to power and the Samajwadi Party has been saying this since the beginning, adding that this incident proves this.
Hours after the son of gangster Atiq Ahmed was killed in an encounter, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday accused the State government of carrying a "fake" encounter in a bid to divert the attention of people from real issues
The relatives of one of the two alleged robbers killed during separate police "encounters" in the district, staged a protest blocking Burewala Road and claimed that the deceased was a Class X student and was killed by Machiwal police in a "fake" shootout.
A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and A Amanullah was informed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the state, that the government said there were "serious doubts" about petitioners' locus and motive.
After the accused in the Umesh Pal murder case were killed in encounters, Samajwadi Party MP Ram Gopal Yadav on Tuesday expressed apprehension that the police would kill one of the sons of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed in a fake encounter in a few days.
The Supreme Court on Thursday said that it would hear on March 17, Atiq Ahmed's plea seeking protection, and restraining from taking him from central jail Ahemdabad to Prayagraj or any part of the state of Uttar Pradesh apprehending that he may be killed in any fake encounter.
Despite unprecedented efforts of the Pashtun community to bring justice to Mehsud, his killers were scot-free in an extremely dubious legal proceeding. Rao's acquittal is another example of how the Pakistani state authorities, including the judiciary, brazenly discriminate against the minori
The pleas were filed in 2007 by senior journalist BG Verghese and lyricist Javed Akhtar seeking a probe into the alleged fake encounters. Verghese passed away in 2014.
All the convicts including former SHO Pawan Singh, Pal Singh Thenwa, Rajendra Prasad, Sarnam Singh and Mohkam Singh were sentenced to life imprisonment.
In a major development in the Pilbhit encounter case, the Allahabad High Court convicted all 43 policemen involved in the case. The High Court sentenced all the culprits to 7 years of rigorous imprisonment under IPC 304 with a fine of Rs 10,000, setting off a trial court's ruling of life imp
The head of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) and former Chief Minister of Balochistan Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal raised concern over the gross violation of human rights in the province.