In J&K, security agencies have been blamed for gross human rights abuses. The families of those killed by personnel in fake encounters have questioned the renaming move.
Vikas Dubey: Inquiry Panel Says No Evidence of Wrongdoing by UP Police
The report says there is no material evidence to challenge the police s version of the encounter but there is sufficient material to support it.
Vikas Dubey after his arrest. Photo: Handout by Madhya Pradesh police
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New Delhi: The three-member commission inquiring into the Uttar Pradesh police’s killing of gangster Vikas Dubey said there is no evidence to suggest that the encounter was staged, lamenting that witnesses did not come forward to challenge the police claim.
The commission is headed by former Supreme Court judge B.S. Chauhan and has as its members former Allahabad high court judge Sashi Kant Agrawal and former UP director general of police K.L. Gupta.
PDP President tweeted that she has been placed under house arrest just before her visit to Athar Mushtaq s family, allegedly killed in a fake encounter in Srinagar.
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The Army had found prima facie evidence that troops had exceeded powers.
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Encounter site in Amshipora area of Shopian in south Kashmir on July 18, 2020.
| Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD
The Army had found prima facie evidence that troops had exceeded powers. The Army captain involved in the fake encounter in Kashmir s Shopian district last July and two other civilian accused haven t provided any information about the source of weapons planted on the three slain youths and had also attempted to destroy the evidence, a police charge sheet said.
Captain Bhoopendra Singh had also provided wrong information to his superiors and the police about the recovery made during the staged encounter, the charge sheet filed by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police before the chief judicial magistrate here said.