The Uttar Pradesh government termed police encounters as “self-defence action” which are subject to fair and impartial investigation with nothing for the State to hide.
A 286-page status report filed by the State government in the Supreme Court said it leaves “no stone unturned” in its enquiries into the actions of its police.
“There is regular monitoring of police self-defence action in which accused persons have died. In all the police encounter incidents that have taken place since 2017, details related to the killed criminals and the results of the investigation/enquiry are collected and scrutinised every month at the police headquarters level… sweeping allegations against the State made therein are completely false and unjustified,” the Additional Director-General of the UP Special Task Force assured on behalf of the State.