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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
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Topic: UP encounters

222 mafias killed, 930 booked under NSA: Yogi 8-yr report card leans heavily on ‘improved law & order’

Samajwadi Party chief and former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav asks what's the point of celebrating 8 years when cases of encounters and rapes in Uttar Pradesh being reported daily.

UP STF kills gangster Anil Dujana in ‘encounter’. Lawyer claims he was ‘set to surrender, shooting staged’

Dujana’s lawyer Jitendra Nagar claimed he was picked up by the STF from outside Delhi’s Karkardooma court and later shown to have been killed in an encounter.

UP Police backs Apple worker death accused: Solidarity or abetting trigger-happy behaviour?

Members of the UP police are allegedly raising funds for constable Prashant Chaudhary, who has been accused of shooting Apple executive Vivek Tewari in Lucknow. ThePrint asks: UP Police...

It is a murder, top UP cop says about Apple store manager killed by policeman

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath says killing of Vivek Tiwari was not an encounter. Top cop calls it a shameful incident.

UP encounters: A thug who was ‘mentally unstable & begging’, a ‘rushed’ midnight cremation

Not far from Delhi, the police seem to be targeting dormant criminals, who are easy targets, to win rewards or to prove that crime is being curbed.

UP encounters: One ‘mistaken identity’, another killed after ‘raising hands in surrender’

Cities in Delhi’s neighbourhood have seen 3 encounters in the last 5 months, and locals say each of the slain gangsters was frequently visited by the police.

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