Four accused in the Hyderabad rape-murder case were shot dead by the police on Friday morning. Rediff.com lists some other encounters that stunned India. SIMI terrorists killed in Bhopal (2016) In 2016, eight SIMI activists were shot dead on the outskirts of Bhopal, hours after the undertrials allegedly slit a guard’s throat and escaped from a city prison. However, the operation kicked up a controversy after video footage emerged that purportedly showed a policeman pumping bullets into a man from close range. Some unidentified men were also seen in the video brandishing a knife that was neatly wrapped in a plastic cover. ‘The prisoners were wearing layers and layers of clothes’ Two years later, in 2018, a judicial commission appointed to probe the encounter termed the police action justified. The commission, headed by retired Madhya Pradesh high court judge S K Pandey, also gave the police a clean chit. Sandalwood smugglers encounter (2015) On April 7, 2015, 20 red sander smugglers were killed by the police in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district. This was the highest death toll in a single encounter with the police in the history of red sanders smuggling. Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force DIG Kantha Rao claimed… Read full this story
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