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Friday, August 1, 2025
TopicFake encounter

Topic: Fake encounter

12 Noida cops face charges over ‘fake encounter, torture’ of B.Tech student. What the 2022 case is

In September 2022, police officers allegedly attempted to frame Somesh Gautam, a Mathura resident, in murder-for-money plot. Police, however, maintain encounter was legitimate.

Autopsy finds antemortem, homicidal injuries in 3 Hmar men killed in Assam Police’s custody

Police had said 'armed militants' were apprehended & shot during operation to nab other militants in Cachar district. Families claimed trio killed in ‘fake encounter’.

Ex-cop Pradeep Sharma gets life term in fake encounter case, Bombay HC calls his acquittal ‘perverse’

HC also upheld conviction & life sentence imposed by trial court on 13 persons, including cops, and quashed the conviction and life sentence of 6 other accused and acquitted them.

Shots fired to kill — Why ‘Hyderabad encounter’ panel wants 10 cops booked for murder

SC-appointed panel, in its report submitted in court, said accused were ‘deliberately fired upon with an intent to cause their death’. SC has transferred case to Telangana High Court.

Shillong returns to markets ‘hoping for calm’ after violence, curfew over ex-militant’s killing

On 13 August, a former militant was killed by police, leading to violence in the city two days later. Curfew was imposed and a judicial probe ordered into the killing.

With its betrayal in Bastar, Congress has abandoned adivasi cause — one that gave it power

A Congress leader who used to call security forces 'evil' told an officer involved in the Chhattisgarh police operation that killed three adivasis in Silger 'not to be deterred by deaths'.

Chhattisgarh govt to initiate action in 2012 Sarkeguda ‘fake’ encounter case

Judicial commission found encounter that killed 17 villagers for being ‘Maoists’ was fake. Chhattisgarh home minister promises swift action soon.

CBI court discharges former Gujarat cops Vanzara, Amin from Ishrat Jahan case

Former police officers DG Vanzara and NK Amin were 2 of the 7 accused chargesheeted by CBI in the 2004 alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan.

SC orders disclosing Bedi panel’s report on Gujarat alleged fake encounters to petitioners

The Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it would later decide on whether it will accept Justice Bedi committee's final report.

Sohrabuddin Sheikh case witness wants verdict stayed, says many not allowed to depose

Rizwana Khan, the wife of Azam Khan, an alleged former aide of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, has said that their entire family had been threatened.

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