‘We are dealing with threats from both sides,’ say villagers about security forces who suspect them of being Maoists, and Maoists who suspect them of being informers.
In an interview with ThePrint, Kumar says no particular community being targeted. He also credits increased foreign investment in UP to improved law & order situation.
Police encounters can be reduced if witnesses, judges, and prosecution counsel are protected from the vast network of loyal individuals obstructing the trial.
The special task force of UP Police was set up in 1998, and on its 25th anniversary Thursday, shot dead 'gangster' Anil Dujana in the unit's 184th 'encounter'.
The public has lost faith in the ability of the legal system. It is convinced that because powerful criminals will never face justice, it is easier and quicker to bump them off.
Atiq Ahmed was allegedly killed last week by 3 men posing as journalists. However, 4 others accused in Umesh Pal murder have been killed in alleged police encounters.
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh Police's killing of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed's son Asad Ahmed in an 'encounter' made the front pages of the Urdu newspapers...
Speaking in the assembly, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said encounters are not premeditated. He later tweeted that the onus of ‘not facing an encounter is on criminals, not police’.
Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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