A year after the RG Kar rape-murder Swarupa Dutt/Rediff look at the city where it happened, Kolkata -- its study in dichotomy, at once the self-proclaimed cultural capital of India as also a petri dish for a peculiar rage that breeds crimes against women.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday expressed his extreme disappointment over army's decision to close the Pathribhal fake encounter case and said the state law authorities will be asked to examine options to address this "serious" matter.
A three-member inquiry commission on the encounter killings of four suspects in a case of gang-rape and murder of a veterinarian (named changed as Disha) in Hyderabad in December 2019 revealed that the firing by the police personnel was deliberate.
The arrest comes in the wake of investigations made by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the Bombay High Court into the alleged encounter of gangster Ram Narayan alias Lakhan Bhaiya on November 11, 2006 near Nana-Nani park in suburban Versova, officials said.
'While I was shooting the target, Major Surinder Singh videotaped the operation from behind me,' Havaldar Neel Bahadur said.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed for a week the Centre's order dismissing Satish Chandra Verma, a senior IPS officer who assisted the Central Bureau of Investigation in its probe in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, a month before his scheduled retirement.
Police found that Zakir was a fake militant who along with his accomplished adopted names of some militants currently in PoK.
Azam's friend Iqbal, who was with him at the Udai Sagar lake when the alleged attack took place, told police that Azam engineered a "fake attack" on himself by using a country-made pistol, Udaipur Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Narzary said.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Prakash Javadekar has apparently admitted his presence at a meeting shown in a sting operation in connection with the Tulsi Prajapati encounter case.
According to Gandhi's lawyer Kashi Prasad Shukla, the Congress MP, who appeared before special judge Shubham Verma, said he never made a statement against anyone that could lead to a case of defamation.
The complainant referred to Gandhi's comment that the BJP claims to believe in honest and clean politics but has a party president who is an "accused" in a murder case.
The Gujarat police has accepted as fake the encounter in which Tulsi Prajapati, a key witness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh murder case, was killed, top state CID officials have said.
However, another senior cop and accused Pradeep Suryawanshi who was leading the encounter team was convicted for murder of Ram Narayan Gupta, a suspected aide of gangster Chhota Rajan. Twenty others, including 13 policemen, were also convicted for various charges
On the controversial AFSPA, the home minister said, "We will also think of revoking AFSPA."
A city sessions court ordered further investigation into the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case on an application filed by his brother Rubabuddin.
The Supreme Court on Friday appointed former judge Justice H S Bedi as the chairman of the monitoring authority looking into the case of 22 alleged fake encounter killings in Gujarat between 2002 and 2006. The apex court said it wanted the supervision and monitoring of the investigation in the cases to be done by "someone whose integrity is completely beyond any question".
The two were arrested in January in connection with the north Kashmir fake encounters where five civilians had been framed as foreign militants and killed in stage-managed shootouts.
During a hearing on the case on Monday, MP/MLA court judge Yogesh Yadav summoned Gandhi on December 16, advocate Santosh Pandey said.
Finally buckling under mounting public protests against July 23 'fake encounter death' of a youth and a pregnant woman in a market area in Imphal city, the Congress-led Manipur government on Wednesday evening announced judicial inquiry into the incident and also suspended six cops' alleged involved in the 'encounter.'
The police on Tuesday exhumed the body of the victim of the alleged fake encounter in Poonch district and took samples for a DNA test to ascertain his identity. After the approval of the district administration, the body of the August 7 encounter victim was dug out in Surankote belt of Poonch district, in the presence of Additional Superintendent of Police Yougal Manhas, Magistrate (Tehsildar) Nisar Ahmed Khan and other officials on Tuesday afternoon, said the police.
Mumbai police's controversial encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma was remanded on Thursday, to judicial custody till January 27 along with five others including two constables in an alleged fake encounter case involving an aide of gangster Chhota Rajan.
In a judgment with far reaching implications, the Andhra Pradesh High Court has ordered that the details including the names of the policemen involved in any encounter should be made public and a case should be booked against them. A five judge bench headed by the Chief Justice A R Dave passed a long pending petition filed by the civil rights organisations in the state seeking action against the policemen involved in "fake" encounters.
The orders suspending DIG (Border Range) Vanzara and Superintendent of Police Rajkumar Pandiyan of the state intelligence wing were issued on Saturday, sources in the state home department said in Ahmedabad.
The chief judicial magistrate (CJM) Sopore Tuesday rejected the army's application for permission to record the statements of the three accused in the Machil fake encounter case.
The Gujarat CID on Monday filed a chargesheet against 13 police officials, including DIG D G Vanzara, before the metropolitan court in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
Police says Amitesh and two others were trying to flee after stealing a motorcycle. Father, however, denies the charge.
Earlier, Left, SP and RJD members sought to raise the issue when the House met for the day but were disallowed by the Speaker.
The Narendra Modi government in Gujarat suffered a setback on Tuesday, with the Supreme Court directing a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the 2005 Soharabuddin Sheikh encounter case. A bench of Justices Tarun Chatterjee and Aftab Alam in its verdict accepted the demand for the probe on the plea of the brother of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, who was allegedly killed in a fake encounter by the Gujarat Police.
Gujarat high court on Friday rapped the Central Bureau of Investigation for delay in filing its charge sheet in the Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case, asking it to ascertain the genuineness of the encounter instead of focusing on IB inputs and trying to figure out whether those killed were terrorists or not.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has questioned Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah in connection with the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case.
In a startling admission, Thounaojam Herojit Singh, a gallantry award recipient, said that he shot an unarmed 22-year-old Chungkham Sanjit Meitei back in 2009.
In an embarrassment to the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Gujarat, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the alleged fake encounter killing of Tulsiram Prajapati, stated to be an eyewitness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case allegedly involving former state minister Amit Shah.
New Human Resources and Development Minister M M Pallam Raju on Wednesday said he would reach out to 'everybody' to build a consensus on passage of pending bills on higher education in Parliament, and promised to consolidate 'good work' initiated by his predecessor like in the case of Indian Institutes of Management.
N K Amin, suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police, who got bail from Bombay High Court last month in Sohrabuddin encounter case on medical grounds, was arrested by the CBI from the CivilHospital in Ahmedabad.
Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch Abhay Chudasama was on Wednesday arrested in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. He is the fourth police officer to be taken into custody in connection with the encounter.Central Bureau of Investigation's Deputy Inspector General P Kandaswamy confirmed that Chudasama had been arrested. He has been accused of conspiring to kill Sohrabuddin.This is the first arrest by the CBI.
The petition filed by an NGO 'Act Now For Harmony and Democracy' submitted that the high court has erred in accepting the findings of the National Human Rights Commission, which had refuted the allegation that it was a fake encounter.
Investigations into the mysterious disappearance of Kausar Bi, the wife of Sohrabuddin Sheikh who was allegedly killed in a fake encounter in Ahmedabad in 2005 after being dubbed a terrorist by police, could throw up some grisly facts.
A case of murder was registered on Monday against all the police officials involved in the alleged fake encounter of MBA graduate Ranbir Singh in Ladpur jungles in Dehradun on July 3.
His suspension would be effective from April 24, the date he was arrested by the Gujarat police.
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