Topic: Extrajudicial killing
Forces kill 6 Maoists including 4 women near Chhattisgarh Telangana border
At least six Maoists including four women were killed by security forces near the border between Chhattisgarh and Telangana on Monday morning.
Kashmir: Police detain family members demanding return of dead bodies of killed civilians
Jammu and Kashmir Police have detained family members of Altaf Ahmad Bhat and Mudasir Gul who were killed by Indian armed forces. The family members were on a sit-in protest demanding the return of the dead bodies of their kin at Press Colony in Srinagar.
UP under Yogi govt an ‘active theater of police killings’, calls civil groups’ report
Civil society organisations who have studied 17 cases of extrajudicial killings in Uttar Pradesh, which took place between March 2017 and March 2018 and led to 18 people’s deaths, found that in not one case has an FIR been registered against the police officers who were involved in the killing.
8 years after Chattisgarh “encounter”: Forces killed unarmed Adivasis, not Maoists, finds probe
Eight years after security personnel gunned down eight persons, including four minors, in Edesmetta in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, a judicial inquiry report, submitted to the state cabinet, called the incident "a mistake."
“We even don’t know where he has been buried”: Kashmiri parents say their son killed in a staged encounter
Imran Qayoom Dar, 31, Qayoom’s eldest son was killed in an encounter on July 25, in Munund village of Kulgam district in Jammu and Kashmir. The next day, it turned out that the 'slain militant' was actually a civilian from Batengoo Anantnag.
Extrajudicial killings on the rise in Assam
Arif Jwadder, a lawyer from Assam has moved the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seeking an inquiry into all extrajudicial killings that have taken place in the state since May.
