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Date: Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 11:58 AM
Subject: In Uttar Pradesh, cops fire to win awards
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To,
The Chairperson,
National Human Rights Commission
New Delhi.
Dear Sir,
I want to bring
in your kind attention towards the news published in National Herald on 14
February, 2018 regarding In Uttar Pradesh, cops fire to win awards https://www.
Therefore it is kind
request
1.
To
conduct an inquiry in this incident under section 176(1)A Cr.PC by a Judicial
Magistrate
2.
To
provide compensation to the victim's family.
3.
To ensure Videography of the Post-Mortem
Report of the victim& the same is informed to NHRC.
Thanking
You
Sincerely Yours
Sincerely Yours
Lenin
Raghuvanshi
Founder
and CEO
Peoples'
Vigilance Committee on Human Rights
Email:
pvchr.india@gmail.com
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The high number of encounters in Uttar Pradesh in recent days has raised an eye-brow with opposition parties calling it planned murders
Uttar Pradesh under ‘Yogi’ Adityanath resembles the wild wild
west, rather than a scene of calmness usually associated with ascetics. The
police records are an eye opener; it speaks volumes about the penchant of
policemen to kill in fake encounters.
In the last 10 months (up to February 3) 1,143 encounters took
place in Uttar Pradesh in which 38 top criminals were killed and 298 others
were injured and around 3,000 criminals were arrested. Besides, the police have
imposed National Security Act (NSA) against 167 criminals and seized assets
worth nearly ₹150 crores in this period. Four police officials have also been
killed and 257 others injured during these encounters.
In the most recent shoot-out, four young men who were returning
from a wedding reception on February 3 were stopped by a trainee police
inspector Vijay Darshan at a busy crossing in Noida at 10.30 pm. They were told
that their crime was playing loud music in their SUV. The police opened fire at
Jitendra Yadav, 25, a gym owner, who was at the wheel and received a bullet
injury on his neck. His condition is still unstable.
The three others who were in the car said that the inspector had
threatened them with “encounter” because killing them would give him an
out-of-turn promotion. In the FIR Dharmendra Yadav, who was in the car, wrote
that Inspector used the word “encounter” and “out of turn promotion” when he
opened fire. The police, in a jiffy, suspended the erring inspector.
“Such behaviour from a police officer is unacceptable,” says
Love Kumar, Superintendent of Gautambudh Nagar. But, the message is that the
recent encounters in the name of controlling crime are nothing but cold-blooded
murders where trigger-happy police officers have gunned down criminals just to
get promotion.
The National Human Rights Commission Chairman Justice S Rafat
Alam has sought a report from the Gautambudh Nagar SSP saying the report which
has appeared in a section of media seems to be a violation of human rights. In
his February 5 order, he asked the SSP to file report within 15 days.
Majority of these encounters have been reported from western
Uttar Pradesh with 449 such cases reported from Meerut zone followed by 210 in
Agra. Around 200 cases are reported Bareilly zone and 98 from Kanpur zone.
Such a high number of encounters has raised an eye-brow with
opposition parties calling it planned murders. Samajwadi Party spokesman
Rajendra Chaudhry said, “This seems to be a planned cleansing with an eye on
the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The police have become trigger happy because of
the award associated with the killings.”
The SP leader is not off the mark. The Yogi government has now
authorised the Director General of Police to declare an award of ₹2.5 lakh and
the district police chief can announce an award of ₹25,000 for any wanted
criminals. This has everyone wondering if the government had announced these
payments to allure policemen to kill people in the name of controlling crime.
Senior police officers such as HR Sharma defend police action
saying such efforts are necessary to control crime. The ADG (Law and Order)
Anand Kumar said that the police is targeting only those who are creating
problems. “We ask them (criminals) to surrender and if they open fire then the
police retaliates. In these firings, many cops have been injured too,” he said.
The police justification will not stand court scrutiny. In a
majority of the encounters where criminal has been killed, there is a clear
modus operandi. A criminal is arrested but he escapes from police custody.
After a few days, the police traces and kills him in an encounter. However, the
accomplice of the dreaded criminal always manages to escape.
This happened in Saharanpur too, where the police claimed to
have gunned down a wanted criminal Shamshad in an encounter. Three days before
this encounter in September 2017, Shamshad had absconded from police custody in
Gagalhedi area. The SSP announced an award of ₹12,000 after his escape. The
report says Shamshad sustained bullet injuries. One of his aides managed to
escape. The police claimed that Shamshad had threatened a local doctor Piyush
Sanawar and demanded ₹15 lakh. A similar pattern was followed in the case of
Sunila Sharma, for whose head an award of ₹15,000 was announced. He too fled
from police custody and was killed in an encounter in Gomti Nagar in Lucknow.
In Azamgarh, the police claimed to have gunned down a criminal
Sujeet Singh aka Budhwa, who had a cash reward of ₹50,000 on his death. Police
said that Budhwa escaped from police custody while being taken back to Rampur
district after being produced in a Mau court in connection with a robbery on
August 11. In this encounter the aides of Budhwa escaped. Police claimed that
Budhwa was injured in a gun battle with the police and on his way to hospital
the injured criminal confessed that he was involved in the heist of an SBI bank
in Mau, a bank robbery in Madiyaho (Jaunpur) and half-a-dozen other robberies.
Lenin Raghuvanshi of People’s Vigilance Committee of Human
Rights (PVCHR) says that such encounters damage the rule of law and criminal
justice system. “This also leads to politicisation of criminals as fearing
police action, they join the ruling party. They continue their criminal
activities under the patronage of local leaders,” he added.
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