By IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, March 24: Several activists, lawyers and victims of alleged extrajudicial killings in Uttar Pradesh gathered on Friday in New Delhi’s Constitutional Club for a public tribunal to discuss the new fashion of extrajudicial killings in the name of police encounters in Uttar Pradesh.
Though government data does not show such a high number of incidents, activists however claim that more than 1400 such encounters took place since the BJP’s Yogi Adityanath came to power in March last year.
Citing BJP President Amit Shah’s case, Senior Advocate Indira Jaisingh said that the country is probably going towards the days of Mafia rule in Italy when even judiciary was attacked by the goons.
Terming these incidents as ‘ambushes’ instead of encounter, she said that FIR should be lodged against police officials in every encounter and onus should be on the police to prove that it was a genuine encounter.
Retired I.P.S. officer S.R Darapuri recounted his days in the police service and said that he had been in the police service for 32 years but had seen only one real encounter and even in that he had forced the alleged criminal to surrender.
Claiming that 99 percent encounters are fake, Darapuri also said that even injuries of police personnel are fake.
Rahul Tekchand, Neha Dixit, Rajiv Yadav, Asad Hayat Khan, Nakul Singh, Ali Anwar and Nadeem Khan also addressed the gathering.
