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An encounter killing, often simply called an encounter, is an extrajudicial killing by police or the armed forces in South Asia, supposedly in self-defence when they encounter suspected gangsters or terrorists. The officers typically described the incidents as a shootout situation, often allegedly starting when a criminal grabs for the gun of a ...
Gang wars in Mumbai. The Unit came to be known as the "Encounter Squad" because of its involvement in the encounter killings. It came into prominence in the 1980s and 1990s, when they started dealing with Dawood Ibrahim 's D-Company gang, the Arun Gawali gang and the Amar Naik gang. The 'encounter’, was a euphemism for a situation in which a ...
Vijay Salaskar, AC (5 April 1957 – 26 November 2008) was an Indian police inspector and encounter specialist with the Mumbai police. [1] He was widely credited with killing 75–80 criminals in encounters, most of which were members of the Arun Gawli gang. [2] Salaskar was killed in action during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, [3][4] with ...
1976 – The Rajan case. 18 April 1976 – The Turkman gate demolition and firing. 1979 to 1980 – The Bhagalpur blindings was an incident in Bhagalpur in the state of Bihar, India when police blinded 31 undertrials (or convicted criminals, according to some versions), by pouring acid into their eyes.
Batla House encounter case
Pradeep Sharma (born 1961) is a former officer in the police force of Mumbai, India. Sharma attained notability as an "encounter specialist" with the Mumbai Encounter Squad and was involved with the deaths of as many as 312 criminals. [1] On 31 August 2008 he was suspended from the Mumbai police on charges of corruption but was reinstated on 16 ...
2019 Hyderabad gang rape and murder
The 1982 Gonda Encounter is an ongoing criminal case involving the murder of 13 people including the Deputy Superintendent of police in Gonda district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. [1] On 5 March 2013 three police personnel were given capital punishment and five others were given life-time imprisonment by the special CBI court in Lucknow.