Four UN human rights experts, alarmed over fake encounters in UP, write to Indian govt

Meerut | Saturday | 12th January, 2019

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This is murder,” victim Irshad's uncle Yaseen Ahmad had said.NHRC has issued similar notice in the alleged fake encounter of 27-year-old alleged gangster Sumit Gurjar in Greater Noida in October 2017. With mounting allegations of fake necounter, NHRC, in May 2018, had directed the UP government to constitute a five-member investigativeteam for an inquiry into the 17 cases of alleged fake encounters in the state.UP police has rubbished all allegations of fake encounter despite human right bodies flagging serious concerns. We do not call it encounter but police crackdown,” DGP OP Singh had clarified on several occasions. When we opened it, a bullet wound could be clearly seen in the middle of his head. The fact is that this is a not a state policy, but a police strategy..