Md Irshad Ayub Most mainstream political leaders and eminent jurists quickly said in response to the encounter with different amount of wariness and celebration, while many civil society groups and prominent lawyers condemned the police action that came ahead of a trial for the four accused. While some said that the police made a mockery of the Indian criminal justice...

Md Irshad Ayub The four suspects accused of raping and burning alive a veterinarian in Hyderabad were killed by police in an encounter at Friday dawn. According to the police, the accused were taken from Cherlapally Central Prison to Chatanpally, 50 km from Hyderabad, where they had burnt the woman’s body, for “crime reconstruction”. They then allegedly tried to attack...

The Hyderabad ‘encounter’ by the police of the alleged 4 rapists of the veterinary doctor again raises questions about the validity of the tool of extrajudicial killings devised and resorted to by a large section of the Indian police. These were widely practiced by the Maharashtra police to deal with the Mumbai underworld, the Punjab police against Sikhs demanding Khalistan,...