The common fact in the case of Anuj and Akshay is that when their ““Encounter” Happened, He was in police custody. So people are not able to understand how he posed such a threat to the police that ““Encounter” has the situation become?
The “encounter” of the accused in the Badalpur child sexual abuse case in Maharashtra was suspicious from the beginning and now it has become a big controversy. The police told the story that they were taking the accused Akshay Shinde with them for investigation, when Shinde snatched the revolver of a police officer and tried to shoot. Then other policemen opened fire, in which he was killed. Now Shinde’s father as well as the family members of the victim girls have sought refuge in the High Court. They have requested the court to get the case investigated by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under its supervision. On the same day (Monday) when this incident happened, Anuj Pratap Singh, the accused in the jewelery robbery case in Uttar Pradesh, was also killed in an “encounter”. Before this, another accused in this case, Mangesh Yadav, was also killed in an “encounter”. At that time, many circles including the Samajwadi Party had alleged that the police killed Mangesh based on his caste, while the police sent the accused of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s caste to jail.
The matter had become quite heated. Now doubts have been raised that Anuj has also been killed in an encounter to prove the charge of casteism wrong. The common fact in the case of both Anuj and Akshay is that when their encounter took place, they were in police custody. Therefore, people are not able to understand how they posed such a threat to the police that an encounter situation arose? There was a time when it was necessary to immediately report every death in police custody to the National Human Rights Commission and such cases were compulsorily investigated. But now the institutions have lost their edge. On the other hand, there is an allegation that especially the BJP state governments have made “encounters” a state policy. This is a blatant violation of the spirit of justice and the Constitution, but in this era, there is hardly any consideration of these sentiments, at least at the government level.