A Delhi lawyer has filed a PIL in the Gauhati High Court, asking for an impartial investigation into the Assam Police’s alleged fake encounters.
According to reports, there have been at least 80 fake encounters in Assam this year, with 28 people dead and 48 others injured.
PIL by the Lawyer
According to ND TV, advocate Arif Jwadder has filed a petition in the High Court asking the court to order the Assam Police to disclose details of all purported encounters and file FIRs in the cases.
He further requested that the CBI, a Special Probe Team (SIT), or the police of another state conduct a “independent investigation” into the “encounters” under the supervision of the Gauhati High Court.
The PIL stated, “The police personnel implicated in the phony encounters must be hauled before the law.”
The lawyer also asked for a judicial investigation into the alleged encounters by a sitting High Court judge.
The PIL also asked the court to order the state government to compensate the victims’ relatives with monetary compensation after appropriate verification.
According to Jwadder, Assam lacks designated human rights courts in each district, as required by Section 30 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.
The lawyer had previously filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against Assam police over a ‘false encounter’ that occurred after Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s government took power in May.
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