Given the state of affairs today as exemplified by Mr. Vanjara's story one wonders how many other people in India are in the same situation as the three persons slain by the Police as per the current report. Harking back to the hundreds of reported fake encounters in Punjab in the 80's also engineered by the Police, and the dozens of recent incidents in J & K also with the collusion of the Police how many such incidents must have happened nation wide? The BJP is already using the fig leaf that Governments of other States must first clean their own house before pointing fingers at the Gujarat Government. Can the Judiciary not take a pro active role and find out how many persons there are that have been detained by the Police unnecessarily? It seems that instead of draconian anti terrorism measures what we really need are draconian measures to reform the Police. Terrorism and popular disaffection would then abate on their own for want of a cause to fight for.
RE:The journalist who cracked Gujarat fake encounter case
by Abu Mohd. Pharhad Hussain on Dec 05, 2007 07:50 PM Permalink
You're right. Same is for Assam, so many enconters are fake, so many innocent persons and some ultras killed in cold blood in the name of encounter.
