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The report submitted by the Commission of Inquiry to probe the alleged encounter killing of four rape accused in Hyderabad in 2019 stated that the police deliberately fired at them with intent to cause their death.
The death of 20-year-old Shoaib Muhammad Ganai is only the latest in a long list of civilian deaths in which the official narrative differs from what the victims' families claim.
One of the persons accused of killing three policemen in Madhya Pradesh's Guna district last week was shot dead in an encounter with police on Tuesday morning, a senior official said.
Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai informed the Lok Sabha that apart from the 191 police encounter killings in Chhattisgarh, 117 such incidents were reported in Uttar Pradesh in the last five years, 50 in Assam, 49 in Jharkhand, 36 in Odisha and 35 in Jammu and Kashmir.
A Delhi Court, while hearing an alleged encounter case, observed that dubious encounters cannot be used as a solution to control crime.