New Delhi: A plea has been moved within the Supreme Court by an advocate looking for to represent an Independent Expert Committee beneath the Chairmanship of a Former Supreme Court Justice to inquire concerning the encounters that had occurred since 2017 as said by Uttar Pradesh Special Director General of Police (Law and Order) and in addition to inquire into the police custody homicide of Atiq and Ashraf in Uttar Pradesh.
Number of encounters that occurred since 2017
Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf have been shot lifeless whereas they have been taken to a hospital in Prayagraj amid police presence. Advocate Vishaal Tiwari has moved a Public Interest Litigation and sought to represent an Independent Expert Committee beneath the Chairmanship of a Former Supreme Court Justice to inquire into the 183 encounters which had occurred since 2017 as said by Uttar Pradesh Special Director General of Police (Law and Order). He has additionally sought to inquire concerning the killing of Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf who was shot lifeless by assailants throughout police presence.
Advocate Vishal Tiwari, in his public curiosity litigation, has additionally sought to challenge course to unearth the faux encounters by directing the Central Bureau of Investigation to research, acquire and file the proof within the Kanpur Bikru Encounter case 2020 by which Vikas Dubey and his aides have been killed by police within the encounter because the inquiry fee couldn’t file the proof in rebuttal of police model and has filed the inquiry report in absence of that.”The DAREDEVILS which Uttar Pradesh police has tried to become,” the petition mentioned. The petitioner mentioned that his PIL is in opposition to violating the rule of regulation and oppressive police brutality being perpetrated by Uttar Pradesh.
The petitioner has apprised the courtroom that he has approached the courtroom in a matter pertaining to the Kanpur encounter of Vikas Dubey and mentioned {that a} comparable incident was repeated by Uttar Pradesh police which is the encounter killing of Asad who was the son of Atiq Ahmad gangster turned politician and in addition the killing of Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf by personal assailants once they have been in police custody and have been taken for medical examination.
The petitioner mentioned that such incidents are a extreme risk to the democracy and rule of regulation, and such acts are the institution of anarchy and prima facie growth of the police state. He additionally talked about that extra-judicial killings or faux police encounters have been very badly condemned beneath the regulation and can’t exist in a democratic society. The police can’t be allowed to develop into a mode of delivering remaining justice or to develop into a punishing Authority.
“The power of punishment is only vested in the Judiciary. The police when becomes DARE DEVILS then the entire Rule of law collapses and generates fear in the mind of people against the police which is very dangerous for the Democracy and this also results into further crime,” the petitioner mentioned.
On April 15, the gangster turned politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf when being taken for medical examination by the Uttar Pradesh Police, they have been within the custody of UP Police they usually had the obligation of offering the very best security to the accused, the lawyer mentioned.
The lawyer additionally said that the latest killings of Atiq Ahmed and his brother impose a query on the transparency of this incident. “Such is a direct attack on Indian democracy and rule of law. Later the assailants were arrested but during the commission of the offence, there was no protection or retaliation by the police. Such imposes a question on the transparency and proves this matter as a pre-planned attack with no redressal for the accused,” Advocate Vishal Tiwari mentioned in his petition.
