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The court also asked how the duo’s assassins knew they would be taken for a medical checkup that night and also the location of the hospital where they would be taken.
Uttar Pradesh Government has moved a caveat application in Supreme Court on a petition seeking to constitute an Independent Expert Committee under the Chairmanship of a former Supreme Court judge to inquire into the killing of Atiq and Ashraf amid police presence.
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We say with legitimate pride that we are the world’s largest democracy with a democratic Constitution. Criminals deserve speedy and exemplary punishment, but not by circumventing the rule of law guaranteed by that very Constitution
If encounter killings and summary justice acquire legitimacy, what prevents the state from using them even against the innocent, or to settle scores against opponents?