Another UP police ‘encounter’ victim awaits justice

Delhi | Thursday | 4th October, 2018

Summary:

more-inNoida resident Jitender Yadav experienced a sense of déjà vu after hearing about Apple executive Vivek Tiwari’s encounter. police had initially alleged that Jitender was shot at during an encounter but the claim was proven false later. Jitender urged the State government to discourage the “encounter culture”. Vivek was allegedly shot dead by a police constable on September 29 in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow while trying to evade a routine check. Jitender, the winner of a beauty pageant in Uttarakhand, was preparing for the Uttar Pradesh pageant in March at time of the shooting..