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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 ...
The majority of Sikhs in Punjab would come to support the insurgents as harsh police measures, harassment of innocent Sikh families, and fake encounters from the state had progressively increased support, and provided fresh motives for angry youth to join the insurgents, who were extolled by the community as martyrs as they were killed by ...
Sahiwal killings. The Sahiwal killings are the shooting of a couple, their teenage daughter and their neighbour who was driving a Suzuki Alto during an alleged police encounter [1] on 19 January 2019, staged by Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on a highway near Sahiwal city of Pakistan. [2]
The Pakki encounter was a shootout between Punjab Police and members of the Jaipal Singh criminal gang in the Pakki village of Sri Ganganagar district in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, resulting in the deaths of fugitive Vicky Gounder along with his henchmen Prema Lahoria and Sukhpreet Singh. Vicky and Prema died on the spot, while ...
Punjab police DIG A. S. Atwal murdered outside Harmandir Sahib, the holiest shrine of the Sikhs, and his body left to rot. He came in with his Punjab Police uniform and his gun when he was killed. [9] September 1983. Jagraon. Khalistani militants fire indiscriminately at people walking. [10] September-. 5 October 1983.
On 19 November 1981, the Punjab Police were looking for Tarsem Singh Kalasinghian and his accomplices, when on the morning of 19 November 1981 an encounter took place at Daheru village in Ludhiana district in which Police Inspector Pritam Singh Bajwa and Constable Surat Singh of Jalandhar were gunned down. All of the militants hiding in a house ...
The police crackdown in the state resulted in an average of 50 youths detained and 6 six killed per week, prompting a wider acceptance of Bhindranwale's claim that the government was out to destroy the Sikhs. [41] The People's Union for Civil Liberties, an Indian human rights group, accused the Punjab Police of behaving like a "barbarian force."
2014 Jamalpur Encounter. Jamalpur Fake Encounter case is ongoing Criminal case in Jamalpur Area, Ludhiana, Punjab state of India took place on and involved fake encounter killing of two Dalit brothers: Harinder Singh (23) and Jatinder Singh (25). [1] Punjab Police suspended three police officers, including SSP for killing both youths in Jamalpur.